Know you what you have done ?--Through you is ended the tale of many a thousand years.

The time is past when I, the priest and Archdruid of this poor land, should have done what has been done, since time untold, without fail, against tomorrow's rites.

That day, therefore, through you shall be unobserved.

It is strange that a mere Saxon warrior, with no thought beyond his feasting and fighting, should set his will against mine and prove the stronger.

Now I wit well that this is some fated day, and that herein lies some omen of what shall be." Then he turned a little from me, and looked at the shadow which had passed altogether from the altar stone now, and half to himself he said: "I had thought that this menhir had fallen when this came to pass.
But maybe the old prophecy meant that not until it fell we must cease our rites.