With a gentle tilt of her head, Grand Lady said, “Honeygirl, I have waited a long time to give this one last gift to you.” I sat beside her and nested her hand in mine. “You already have given me so much, Grand Lady.

[Beaufort commands him to go in] No, no, after you, Baron-I insist!

Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.

They speak about men who perished on Viking expeditions to faraway countries — westward to England, most especially eastward to Gardarike (the present Russia), to Greekland (the lands comprising the Byzantine Empire), to Sarkland (the Mohammedan countries about the Black Sea), to Jorsalaland (Jerusalem), to Langbardaland (the present Italy).