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Where is Llud?

He was called away to see Ambrosius.

The Saxons attacked us after he left!

Saxons! Saxons, they�re coming back!

He�s lying low.

How many of them?

Lying low against our spears.

Yes, but the first head to be split will be with this.

They are Saxon children!

No woman here is going to mother them!

That boat is holed and sinking!

Lash those Saxon brats to the boards and send them down with it!

Yeah! Yeah!

What�s your name? � Krist. What�s yours?

Arthur.

This is Kai.

This is my sister, Elka.

Hello, Elka.

Hello, Arthur. This is Kerric.

I like him best in all the world.

But his head�s come off.

I�m sorry about that.

Krist, where are you from?

Ulrich�s people.

That�s the Saxon camp around the headland.

Maybe they�re the ones who made this slaughter.

Thank you, Kai.

No.

We�ve never fought them, they plague Herward, not us.

How can you be so sure?

Krist, what happened?

We were to go across the water. There were big winds and waves.

Our father and mother, they had to leave us.

What can we do with them?

They can�t stay here.

You saw how the people feel.

You can�t blame them.

No.

But it means they have got to go back to their village.

Mmm?

Someone has to take them back.

Whoever takes them back�ll be slaughtered.

Not if he looks like a Saxon,

and can behave like one because,

by birth, he is one.

No. I won�t do it.

Let them take care of their own!

There is no one else.

I�m no minder of children, especially Saxon brats!

Once Llud found a Saxon brat who�d been abandoned.

He wasn�t too proud to be a minder of children.

That was different!

Was it?

Arthur, I�m no good with children!

Don�t get too involved with your Saxon brothers and stay there.

Goodbye, Elka. � Goodbye, Arthur.

Goodbye, Krist. � Goodbye, Arthur.

Kai? � Mmm?

What�s that scar on your neck?

A gift from Arthur.

Doesn�t Arthur like you?

Yes, he likes me.

Then why did he give you a scar?

We became angry with each other.

Why did you get angry with each other?

Perhaps because one of us asked too many questions.

Kai, I want to feed the squirrels.

There aren�t any squirrels.

Oh, no.

Oh, yes!

Why couldn�t you... feed the squirrels before we left?

I did, but now I want to feed them again.

I feed them... quite often.

Where�s Elka? � She took Kerric for a walk.

Go and find her.

Come on, we�re moving off.

Krist?

Elka!

Krist! Elka!

Come out of there!

Come out, you little Saxon monsters! Out!

Kerric�s lost his head again!

Kerric�s won�t be the only one if you go off like that again.

It�s dangerous country.

Krist!

Unless you want a leathering, come out!

Sorry, Kai.

You play that game once more and I promise you won�t sit down for a week.

Why�s it dangerous country, Kai?

Because it is.

Wild boar everywhere.

They�re dangerous, aren�t they?

Never seen one.

Just as well.

Now you listen to me.

If ever you hear me whistle like this...

you come running to me as fast as ever you can.

That�s good.

You�ll have to wait for that tooth to come back.

I couldn�t even whistle when I had all my teeth.

We�re here! I know this place!

We�re nearly home! � Ssh! No noise.

Let�s surprise them, huh?

Come on, wake up.

Wake up, wake up.

Now, we�re going to play a game.

When I give the word, you two run down into the village.

Quietly. Then I�ll follow.

And that way we give them two surprises.

Good idea?

Right. Now you start off.

And when I give the word, you run.

Go on.

Now, no looking.

Run.

Whoa! Wo-ho-ho-whoa!

Did you think you�d backed into a murdering Celt?

It�s Hald!

Hald, Hald, we�re back!

Oh. The children!

Ahh.

By all the gods, we thought you�d...

Elka! Krist! Mmm.

The cup will be passed tonight.

Come!

Come.

My, the relief to see you and the children.

You must be a stranger in these parts...

Ahoy!

They�re back! The children are back!

Elka and Krist, they�re back.

Elka and Krist, they�re safe.

There are treasuries fit for the plunder,

There is room in my house for a wife.

For a wife, for a wife,

There is room in my house for a wife.

There is room in the cup for more drinking,

And there�s many a secret to keep,

Could keep even the dullards a-thinking

Of the harvest there is for to reap.

For to reap, for to reap,

Of the harvest there is for to reap.

Haven�t heard that since I was a child.

You should stay here. � Mmm?

The minstrel sings it every day.

It�s the only song he knows.

How can he stay with us, Hildred?

Perhaps he has a wife at home.

Have you? � No.

But all the same, I must leave.

Sit down, man!

You have brought the gift of life.

Ulrich�s people know how to repay.

You will stay with us tonight.

He stays with me!

My daughter will prepare a place for him.

It�s still daytime.

The Celts let us stay up last night.

The Celts?

We stayed with them last night.

How did that man get you away from those savages?

He was with them. Kai was one of them.

He was an important man. They listened to him.

By all the gods!

And they�re not savages, they�re nice!

Where you found the children, that�s Celt country, isn�t it?

What were you doing there?

I�ll tell you what he was doing there.

That�s Kai. The Saxon who rides with Arthur.

So you are Kai, the barbarian Arthur�s right-hand man.

I sing a song about your great fight with him. � Huh!

The brawls of savages make brave songs.

Why do we waste time?

This man is our sworn enemy.

We kill him!

We act according to the law.

Otherwise we are no better than savages ourselves.

He is the Saxon who fights against Saxons.

The law... says he is a traitor.

What say you to that?

I was abandoned as a child and left for dead by the Saxons.

The Celts gave me life.

Are you saying you kill your own kind for revenge?

I�ve killed only those who would�ve killed me.

The Celts were here before us.

You are the intruders.

There�s room in this land for both of us.

No.

You despoil our forests.

You cut down our trees.

You drive out the wild boar which is the food of life to us.

Plant rich crops.

We raise fine cattle.

You raid our villages.

As you raid ours.

You kill our women.

Yesterday in my own village... � Ulrich! Who is on trial here?

He, or us?

This is Kai the Butcher, the killer of many Saxons.

Killer of many more if we let him go.

He is our enemy!

The fate of enemies is to die.

So let him die! � Father!

You know the law. Women may not be heard.

Then the law shall be clever enough to close your ears.

Hildred!

He is of our blood.

He brought back two of our children. He could have let them die.

Two lives deserve one.

He is a spy.

That is the only reason he brought the children back.

He came to seek out our defences.

We will make our decision.

Take him to the hut! Guard him.

Kai!

The decision of the court is that you go free.

You can thank Saxon justice for your life.

You will be escorted.

Kai�s out!

After him!

Take him! Take him!

Come on!

Come on! Come on!

Kai! � This is the time, Kai.

You remembered.

Kerric�s head�s come off again!

Wear that wound proudly, Kai.

That is the only gift you will ever receive from the Saxons.

No, they have more to offer.

Had the blade gone deeper, they would have given you death.

But they gave me life.

They are men like us, and like us they also believe in justice.

It is a strange justice that prompts them into stealing our lands,

burning our villages,

and slaughtering our people.

It�s a stranger one that sent them into the council hut to argue my fate.

They gave me a trial. A fair trial.

The Celts would�ve held council.

The lawgiver would have decided the case.

There every man was heard.

They listened to the arguments, debated my case.

And they gave me a gift of life.