After some years he returned, and wished to build a church or monastery on that mountain towards the west, whence the walls of my castle are distinctly seen.
It was said that he wished to become a priest there, but it fell out otherwise.

For some pirates had sailed from the southern seas, and, hearing of the building of this monastery, their chief thought to find much gold belonging to the lord of the castle and to the master builders, or else, if he surprised and carried them off, to extort from them a mighty ransom.

He did not yet know northern courage and northern weapons; but he soon gained that knowledge.

Having landed in the creek under the black rocks, he made his way through a by-path up to the building, surrounded it, and thought in himself that the affair was now ended.

Ha! then out rushed Weigand and his builders, and fell upon them with swords and hatchets and hammers.