'If ye will tell me what I ask, I will tell you,' said Perceval.
YOUNG PERCEVAL QUESTIONS SIR OWEN
'I will answer gladly,' said Sir Owen, smiling, yet wondering at the fearless and noble air of this youth in so wild a waste.
'What is this?' asked Perceval, and pulled the skirt of the hauberk.
'It is a dress made of rings of steel,' answered Sir Owen, 'which I put on to turn the swords of those I fight.'
'And what is it to fight?'
'What strange youth art thou?' asked Sir Owen. 'To fight is to do battle with spears or swords, so that you would slay the man that would slay you.'
'Ah, as I would have slain the buck that would have gored me,' said Perceval, nodding his head.
Many other questions the youth asked eagerly, as to the arms they bore and the accoutrements and their uses. And at length he said: