William Morris,
The Sundering Flood — The Staves which Osberne taught to the Dalesmen
(1898)
“ Grows the speech in the mouth. And from father to son speeds the tale of the true, Of the brave that forbore that the brethren might do. When this was sung then each man went home to his house. But it is said that these staves were made by Osberne, and that he taught them to the Western men as well as to the Eastern. ”
