And now Howel, who had not yet so much as seemed to know Evan, rode alongside him for a moment, and spoke kindly to him, telling him that he was glad of all that I had told him, and at last asking him to forget that which he had done to him in the woods of Dyfed.

And that was much for the proud prince to ask, as I think, and I held him the more highly therefor in my mind.
And Evan replied by asking Howel to forget rather that he had ever deserved death at his hands.
"It shall be seen that I am not ungrateful to the Thane, my master, hereafter--if I may live after seeing this place," he said.
"Is it so deadly, then ?" asked Howel, speaking low in the hush of the valley.
"It is said that those who see it must die--at least, of us who ken the curse on it.

I do not think that it will harm you or the thane to see it, for you are not of this land at all.

I have known men see this valley by mischance, and they have died shortly, crying out on the terror thereof.

Yet none has ever told what he saw therein." Now it seemed to me that it was possible that such men died of fear of what might be, as men who think they are accursed, whether by witchcraft or in other ways, will die, being killed by the trouble on their minds, and so I said to Evan: "I will not take you into this place.