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If he kept it?

Trond the Priest departed the land the same winter that the child was brought to King Inge. He journeyed to Thomas Beckett's grave, and afterwards abode in England till his death.

He departed the land, say you? Then must he have changed the children and dreaded the vengeance of the Birchlegs.

Or he did not change the children, and dreaded my vengeance.

Which surmise hold you for the truth?

Either may well be true.

But the priest's sons of whom you spoke?

They went with the crusaders to the Holy Land.

And there have since been no tidings of them?

Ay, tidings there have been