Prince Valiant Page #4

The two of them came galloping

along the bank and rode right past me.

- Didn't they see you?

- I was concealed in some bushes.

If there was undergrowth by the water,

you must have been close to the fens.

Well, sir, it was

quite a way from here.

I'll ride that way and take a look.

Get back up there and watch.

Hide your horse.

Keep out of sight.

I'll come back through the woodland

and join you.

All right. Put down your weapons

if you want me alive.

Oh, Ilene! Ilene!

Ilene!

I wonder who he is.

At least he's a Christian,

praise God.

All he needs is a little rest.

He'll come around shortly, milady.

Thank you.

That's Father.

We'd better be going, milady,

he's waiting.

- You go along.

- But I...

- Please.

- I'll tell him you're coming.

Am... Am I in heaven?

No. On Earth, thank heaven.

- Well, where?

- At Ord. My father's King of Ord.

- Yes, but...

- Please, don't talk.

You must sleep

and Father's calling.

- No, wait. Please.

- I'll come back later.

So far, Aleta, I have said nothing

to your nursing the Viking

but now that he's recovering, I demand

that you leave the nursing to the servants.

Oh, but, Father, that wouldn't be kind,

or even Christian.

Don't bring in religion

to confound me!

God help the king

who has two daughters and no sons.

Listen, my child.

It's time that you were married.

And because you are older

than Ilene,

the man you wed

will one day rule Ord with you.

That is why I have accepted

King Arthur's invitation

to attend the tournament

at Camelot.

- There you will find a husband.

- Oh, but, Father...

You will have all the best knights

in Britain to choose from.

You'll be betrothed before you return.

I've sworn it.

Somehow the knights who come here

to seek your hand never seem to suit you.

- They're all so old.

- We don't want striplings.

What's wrong with Sir Brack?

His blood is as good

as King Arthur's.

And he never lets us forget it,

as his own father apparently did.

Well, er, I don't say

there's not a blemish on his birth

but had King Arthur not been born,

Brack might hold the throne.

Legitimate or not,

he is of royal blood.

- So is Prince Valiant.

- But he's a Viking!

Barbarians, pirates,

uncivilised pagans, all of them.

And how do we know that he was

even with Sir Brack?

I'm sure that if

Sir Brack were near

he would have come and paid court to you

as he always does.

Besides, all we know about the Viking

is that he is a Viking!

Who's that arriving?

Why, it's Sir Brack!

He's come to see...

Incredible.

My horse went lame, and when I returned

to where I'd left you, daylight was going.

- There wasn't a soul in sight.

- You saw no armed men, sir?

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