"You are wounded; but not, I trust, to death.

We are prisoners in the hands of the Welsh, but that chain Glendower's daughter gave me has saved our lives." A rough litter was constructed of boughs.

On this Roger, after his armour had been taken off, was laid.

At their leader's orders six Welshmen took it up, while two placed themselves, one on each side of Oswald.

Then the leader took the head of the party, and moved away into the forest.
Oswald's head still swam from the effects of the blow, but as they went on the feeling gradually ceased, and he was able to keep up with his captors.