“God save thee, Robin Hood, and all this company.”
“Welcome be thou, gentle knight,” Robin answered. “Hast thou thy land again?”
“Yea,” said the knight, “and I thank Heaven and thee for it. But take it not amiss that I am come so late, for I have been at a wrestling match, where I helped a poor yeoman who was not getting fair play in the game.”
“Sir knight,” Robin answered, “I thank thee. Whoever helps a good yeoman will always be my friend.”
Now, when they had thus greeted each other the knight said:
“Here is thy four hundred pounds which thou didst lend me, and twenty pounds more for thy courtesy.”
“Nay, by Heaven,” cried Robin, “thou shalt keep it for thyself, for I have already received the money for the debt, and it would be a disgrace to take it twice.” And he told the knight the story of the monk, and they laughed together over it and made good cheer.
Thus Robin Hood helped the knight out of all his troubles and they were friends from that time to the end of their days.
How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men[26]
By the side of All-Father Odin, upon his high seat in Asgard, sat Frigga, his wife, the Queen of the Asas. Sometimes she would be dressed in snow-white garments, bound at the waist by a golden girdle, from which hung a great bunch of golden keys. And the earth-dwellers, gazing into the sky, would admire the great white clouds as they floated across the blue, not perceiving that these clouds were really the folds of Frigga’s flowing white robe, as it waved in the wind.