William Morris,
The Sundering Flood — Osberne shoots a Gift across the Flood
(1898)
“ O bairn Osberne, when thou art become a man and a great man, and art called maybe Earl Osberne Wulfgrimsson, will not thy face have changed, and thou with the beard and the fierce eyes, and the mouth that hath shouted in the battle? ”
William Morris,
The Sundering Flood — Osberne shoots a Gift across the Flood
(1898)
“ What is thine! Elfhild, my child, said he, my name is Osberne, Wulfgrim's son, and I am of Wethermel, as I told thee. Yet belike it is not so strange that we have not told our names hitherto, and I hope no ill-luck will go with our telling them, for I suppose that people give each other names when there are many of them, and they would know one from another. But as to us, there be only two of us, so that if I call thee Maiden, and thou call me Swain, it had been enough. Nevertheless I am fain of calling thee Elfhild. And I am full fain of calling thee Osberne, she said. ”
William Morris,
The Sundering Flood — Osberne shoots a Gift across the Flood
(1898)
“ For somehow it seems to be shown to me that thou wilt be loved of women, and love them somewhat over-much. For my part, said Osberne, I seem to see of myself that I shall have much to do slaying wolves and evil things, and standing before kings and getting gifts of them, so that there will be little time for me to go about loving women; yet thee I shall ever love, Elfhild. ”
