silver stuck in the said coif?'

As she spoke she set her hand to her bosom and drew something from
it, and held forth her hand to Gold-mane, and lo amidst the palm the
great blue stone set in silver.

'Wondrous as a dream is this,' said Face-of-god, 'for these twain I
remember well, and what followed.'

She said: 'I will tell thee that. There came a man of the Shepherd-
Folk, drunk or foolish, or both, who began to chaffer with the big
carle; but ever on the queen were his eyes set, and presently he put
forth his hand to her to clip her, whereon the big carle hove up his
fist and smote him, so that he fell to earth noseling. Then ran the
folk together to hale off the stranger and help the shepherd, and it
was like that the stranger should be mishandled. Then there thrust
through the press a young man with yellow hair and grey eyes, who
cried out, "Fellows, let be! The stranger had the right of it; this
is no matter to make a quarrel or a court case of. Let the market go
on! This man and maid are true folk." So when the folk heard the
young man and his bidding, they forebore and let the carle and the
queen be, and the shepherd went his ways little hurt. Now then, who
was this young man?'

Quoth Gold-mane: 'It was even I, and meseemeth it was no great deed
to do.'

'Yea,' she said, 'and the big carle was my brother, and the tall
queen, it was myself.'