‘Once there they asked me for my name
And the reason for my coming,
I told them for the chance of fame,
And treasure if not succumbing.
I told them of your promise King,
Reward for those who strive
How those who make the Isle would win
A gift from what they find.’
‘But tell me of their greatest men’,
The King at once replied,
‘Their names and strengths and number then
Their defensive works describe.’
‘Their cheifest men, three Earls I met,
Adwinus, Morkere and Tosti,
Two nobles, and many others, yet,
The greatest was my host.
Unrivalled amongst all men I know
In courage and conviction,
And I have travelled high and low
HIs valour is no fiction.’
Dada gives an account of those he found in Ely.
(23.10.26)
