Then you will surely draw away also any ill that she has already sent you, and fasten it to her." "Then I think she will shrivel up," said the old witch, with much content.

"You are a great wizard, lord; and I thank you." "Here is a true saying of a friend of mine," said Heregar, coming up in time to hear this.

"But what has come to you, king?
have you heard aught ?" Now when the old woman heard the thane name the king, before I could answer she cried out and came and clung to my stirrup, taking my hand and kissing it, and weeping over it till I was ashamed.
"What is this ?" I said.
"O my lord the king!" she cried.

"I thought that yon sad-faced man in Denewulf's house was our king maybe, so wondrous proud are his ways, and so strange things they hear him speak when he sleeps.

But now I am glad, for I have seen the king and kissed his hand, and, lo, the sight of him is good.