You have heard of the Saracens but not of the Normans.
What kind of people lived there amongst those bristling ivy-grown towers?
Thieves of course.

Were they not Saracens and therefore Turks, according to your ethnology, and therefore brigands?
It is odd that the government should have allowed them to build a castle just there.
Perhaps they were stronger than the government.

You have never heard of Count Roger, either, though you know the story of Judas Iscariot by heart as you have heard it told many a time in Scalea.

Up you go, leaving the castle behind you, up to that square house they call the tower on the brow of the hill.

It is a lonely road, a mere sheep track over the heights.