"Norton, Andre - Huon of the horn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norton Andre)

"My son!" That cry rang through the halls and
pierced the hearts of all who heard it, for the depth
of the King's sorrow was bared in his words.

"Aye, your son, Lord King. And there stands
the false Huon whom you cherish and yet who
hath killed Chariot. We were hunting in the forest
as the Prince was wont to do and, having loosed
his falcon against fair prey, he was vexed when


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the bird returned not--so he needs must pursue
it. Whilst we rode so, unheeding of our path, we
came upon a road where this suckling rogue was
passing, the Prince's own falcon upon his wrist.
When Prince Chariot demanded that his own be
returned to him this same Huon and his brother
set upon the Prince, cutting him down without

When he heard such lies the rage arose within
Huon so that at first it choked speech from him.
But he cast his glove so that it struck the Earl full

across his false lips.

"Thou liest!" cried the young lord of Bordeaux

when he could again command his voice.

But King Charlemagne had made a secret sign
to his guards to take the Duke, and that they now
did, bearing him down with their strength and
binding fast his arms in spite of his struggles.

"Strike off the head of this murderer!" roared

the King.

But, as his guards would have obeyed. Duke

Naymes held him off, saying:

"By all the laws of chivalry and knighthood, we
cannot so use this youth. He hath named Amaury
'Liar' and hath challenged him to prove the truth
of his tale with his body--Our Lord God standing
as the Judge of both. Such is his right and no