‘I beheld another trio hard by the room of the King himself. Three blue mantles around them, and three bedgowns with red insertion over them. Their arms had been hung above them on the wall.’
‘I know those,’ quoth he. ‘Dris & Draigen & Aittít (‘Thorn and Bramble and Furze’), the king's three lampooners, three sons of Sciath foilt67. A man will perish by each of their weapons.’