The Lad Of The Gad. Alan Garner

      “Then what will you do now?” said the Earl.

      “I am going away,” said the Champion.

      “You will not leave my set of sons,” said the Earl.

      But the Champion leapt on the point of his pins, and he went over turret and top of court and town, till he met a man threshing in a barn.

      “I will make you a free man for your life,” said the Champion. “There are two of your master’s sons, one with his fist off, one with his head off. Go there and put them on again.”