It seemed to the noble Froda as if a younger brother rode beside him, or even a tender, blooming son.

They travelled thus many days together; and it appeared as if their path were marked out for them in inseparable union; and much as they rejoiced at this, yet they looked sadly at each other whenever they set out afresh, or where cross-roads met, on finding that neither took a different direction: nay, it seemed at times as if a tear gathered in Edwald's downcast eye.
It happened on a time, that at their hostelry they met an arrogant, overbearing knight, of gigantic stature and powerful frame, whose speech and carriage proved him to be not of German but foreign birth.

He appeared to come from the land of Bohemia.

He cast a contemptuous smile on Froda, who, as usual, had opened the ancient book of Aslauga's history, and was attentively reading in it.

"You must be a ghostly knight ?" he said, inquiringly; and it appeared as if a whole train of unseemly jests were ready to follow.