. A child's book of warriors . reafter he fared south to Hagulstad for the feastof Pentecost. On that day of the rushing wind and thetongues of fire, as he stood by the little elfs place ofrest, the Lord and Light-bearer gave him back hisgift of song, made pure in the fire and free fromshame. When he returned once more to his wandering life,folk scarcely knew again the gay singer in the manwho had shrieked on the waste and whose younghair was dashed with grey. Some of the themes that Beda taught him hewrought into noble verse, and men listened to themwith quickened pulses. He won to his day of
. A child's book of warriors . reafter he fared south to Hagulstad for the feastof Pentecost. On that day of the rushing wind and thetongues of fire, as he stood by the little elfs place ofrest, the Lord and Light-bearer gave him back hisgift of song, made pure in the fire and free fromshame. When he returned once more to his wandering life,folk scarcely knew again the gay singer in the manwho had shrieked on the waste and whose younghair was dashed with grey. Some of the themes that Beda taught him hewrought into noble verse, and men listened to themwith quickened pulses. He won to his day of strengthand tranquillity, and sang the Dream of the Roodwhich he had seen long ago in sleep. He was thenan old man, with very few friends left on the had fared hence and had their abiding inheaven. 173 A Childs Book of Warriors When he too passed away from this fleeting life,I do not know. Best pleased am I to think of himas a shadowy gleeman, untouched by time, andflitting about the Northumbrian moors 174
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