GEIRALD THE COWARD
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and I had to try another. The man who keeps his promise at all costs to himself is the man I can trust, both for myself and for my people.’
So they were married, and returned to their own kingdom, which they ruled well and happily. And many years after a poor beggar knocked at the palace gates and asked for money, for the sake of days gone by—and this was Geirald.
[From Neuislandischem Volksmärchen.]
