![]() ![]() “You must be careful to be very polite to the fine ladies of court, Izolda,” my mother warned as she packed my fur robes and velvet gowns into a small chest. When he said that, I had never heard of the Law of First Greeting. “Izolda must come to court with me this season,” my father had declared one day before riding out on the hunt. ![]() The laws no one talks about at all.Īnd it is those laws that bite you in the end, just like that law bit me. It’s not those laws that are the problem. Some laws are talked about by all – featured in story and song – and as a result, it’s easy to know that if you turn traitor to the king, you’ll soon see your head mounted on the battlements of Pensmoore, or if you steal another woman’s horse, a hempen noose will be the last to embrace you. But this man was so unlucky as to have a blue beard, which made him so frightfully ugly that all the women and girls ran away from him.”ġ697 as translated by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book 1889. “There was once a man who had fine houses both in town and the country, a deal of silver and gold plate, embroidered furniture and coaches gilded all over with gold. ![]()
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