"HE WAS A GRAVE MAN, AND BESIDE HIM STOOD HIS DAUGHTER."
Now they were come into the dun, and feasted; and this was a great house, so that the lads were astonished; and the King that was a priest sat at the end of the board and was silent, so that the lads were filled with reverence; and the maid served them, smiling, with downcast eyes, so that their hearts were enlarged.
Before it was day, the elder son arose, and he found the maid at her weaving, for she was a diligent girl. "Maid," quoth he, "I would fain marry you."
"You must speak with my father," said she, and she looked upon the ground smiling, and became like the rose.
"Her heart is with me," said the elder son, and he went down to the lake and sang.
A little after came the younger son. "Maid," quoth he, "if our fathers were agreed, I would like well to marry you."
"You can speak to my father," said she, and looked upon the ground and smiled and grew like the rose.
"She is a dutiful daughter," said the younger son, "she will make an obedient wife." And then he thought, "What shall I do?" and he remembered the King her father was a priest, so he went into the temple and sacrificed a weasel and a hare.