:08:38
By your leave, milord, two knights
do request food and lodging.
:08:42
They are Normans,
lately returned from the Holy Land.
:08:46
If they break no laws of courtesy as guests,
I'll break none as host.
:08:50
Bid them enter and depart in peace,
or else depart in pieces.
:08:54
Elgitha, tell the lady Rowena I do not
desire her presence here tonight.
:08:58
But she is pining for news
from the Holy Land.
:09:00
When she hears they are Normans,
she'll want none of their news.
:09:04
Tell her to keep to her chambers
till we're quit of them tomorrow.
:09:15
Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert
and Sir Hugh De Bracy, milord.
:09:21
We come in peace, Sir Cedric.
:09:23
In peace, I greet you.
:09:25
We come, also, as friends.
:09:29
I greet no one in friendship, save those
who share the royal Saxon blood.
:09:33
Homely fare is before you.
Eat your fill of it.
:09:58
Take me to the Lady Rowena.