And the day that thou goest thence, thou wilt reach the Mound of
Mourning, and round about the mound there are the owners of three
hundred tents guarding the serpent." "Since thou hast, indeed, been
an oppressor so long," said Peredur, "I will cause that thou continue
so no longer." So he slew him.

Then the maiden spoke, and began to converse with him. "If thou wast
poor when thou camest here, henceforth thou wilt be rich through the
treasure of the black man whom thou hast slain. Thou seest the many
lovely maidens that there are in this Court; thou shalt have her whom
thou best likest for the lady of thy love." "Lady, I came not hither
from my country to woo; but match yourselves as it liketh you with
the comely youths I see here; and none of your goods do I desire, for
I need them not." Then Peredur rode forward, and he came to the
Palace of the Sons of the King of the Tortures; and when he entered
the Palace, he saw none but women; and they rose up, and were joyful
at his coming; and as they began to discourse with him, he beheld a
charger arrive, with a saddle upon it, and a corpse in the saddle.
And one of the women arose, and took the corpse from the saddle, and
anointed it in a vessel of warm water, which was below the door, and
placed precious balsam upon it; and the man rose up alive, and came
to the place where Peredur was, and greeted him, and was joyful to
see him. And two other men came in upon their saddles, and the
maiden treated these two in the same manner as she had done the
first. Then Peredur asked the chieftain wherefore it was thus. And
they told him, that there was an Addanc in a cave, which slew them
once every day. And thus they remained that night.

And next morning the youths arose to sally forth, and Peredur
besought them, for the sake of the ladies of their love, to permit