. The camp of refuge;. d of successfulminstrels, and her husband, unwilling to be behindhandin his liberality, offered him any gift he would ask,except his wife and his lands. Hereward demandedthe release of the Irish messengers who had beenimprisoned. The prince was at first inclined to granthis request, when one of his followers exclaimed, Thisis one of their base messengers, who is come to spy thyhouse, and to mock thee by carrying from thee thyenemies in return for his frivolous Cornish chiefs suspicions were easily aroused, butHereward, with the aid of the princess, escap
. The camp of refuge;. d of successfulminstrels, and her husband, unwilling to be behindhandin his liberality, offered him any gift he would ask,except his wife and his lands. Hereward demandedthe release of the Irish messengers who had beenimprisoned. The prince was at first inclined to granthis request, when one of his followers exclaimed, Thisis one of their base messengers, who is come to spy thyhouse, and to mock thee by carrying from thee thyenemies in return for his frivolous Cornish chiefs suspicions were easily aroused, butHereward, with the aid of the princess, escaped withhis companions. When they had left the house, theyfollowed the road along which the Cornish chief andhis bride would pass, and concealed themselves on thebanks of a river which formed the boundary of hisdominions. The prince, determining to deprive each of the Irishmessengers of their right eye, took them into hisown territory. When he came to the river, Herewardand his companions rushed out, slew the prince re-. ANGLO-SAXON DRINKING AND MINSTRELSY (Harleian MSS. No. 603) INTRODUCTION xxv leased the Irishmen, carried away the princess,and met the Irish prince, who was on his way toavenge the insult offered him in the person of hismessengers. Hereward accompanied the Irish princeand his bride to Ireland, and prepared to returnwith his friends to England. A tempest arose, one ofhis two ships was lost, and the storm carried thesecond to the coast of Flanders, and wrecked them inthe neighbourhood of S. Berlin, where they were firstarrested as spies, but received with hospitality when hisname was known, and the Count of Flanders acceptedhis assistance in the wars in which he was bravery gained him the affections of Tur-frida, whom he married. News then arrived that theNormans had conquered Britain; and, leaving his wife tothe care of the two Siwards, he repaired to England. In the year IO69, Hereward returned to his nativeland, brmging with him the two Siwar
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