How knowest thou that? said
Birdalone, laughing. Said Habundia:
Wouldst thou have come to me so soon otherwise from out of all that
happiness? I have come to tell thee of my rede, said Birdalone, and
to ask thee if thou art like-minded with me thereon. Said the wood-
wife: And what is thy rede, my child? Wood-mother, said Birdalone,
we deem that it were good for us all to go down into Utterhay where I
was born, and to take up our abode therein.
Said the wood-wife: This rede I praise, and even so would I have
counselled you to do; but I abided to see if it should come from out
of thy breast, and now even so it hath done; wherefore I understand
thy wisdom and rejoice in thee. And now crave thy boon, my child,
and thou shalt have it without fail.
Yea, said Birdalone, that will I, and the more that it is a simple
one and easy for thee to do. Thou knowest that Hugh the Green Knight
hath come with my she-friends seeking us all the way from under the
Green Mountains, and he hath left there goods that he needs must have
and folk whom he loves; and now he would go back thither, and fetch
all that away hither, and see to his matters as soon as may be.
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