....so, our knight bends down to check on the princess....she appears to be dead, and Eliduc weeps in a torrent of anguish. When they finally reach land, Eliduc takes her to a hermitage, but finds that the holy man has died, so he simply lays Guilliadon in the chapel, planning to come back to bury her after he has erected an appropriate tomb. Every day he sneaks away from his wife to visit Guilliadon at the chapel and weep over her, strangely not decaying, body. Meanwhile, Eliduc's wife is wondering what's up with her husband; he's always so sad...really sorrowful. So one day she sends a servant to follow him and then to let her know where he's going. The servant tells her and then leads her to the hermitage, where, what should she find but a beautiful, unconcious Guilliadon. Guideleuc immediately realizes this must be her husbands lover. Strangly, she is filled with pity for this beautiful woman who died before her time and she grieves for her. Then all of a sudden two weasels appear and one weasel runs over the fair maid's body, and the servant kills it. The weasel's mate then runs out and comes back with a beautiful red flower in its mouth and places it in the mouth of his mate. The she-weasel wakes up immediately and they start to run off together. Guideleuc says, "quickly man! stop that weasel!" So he stops the weasel and retrieves the flower, which is promptly placed in Guilliadon's mouth, and - you guessed it - she wakes up. The fair maid sees Guideleuc and tells her the whole story of a worthless knight whom she loved, but who abandoned her after she discovered he was actually married. The noble wife then explains that she is that knight's wife and that he has been coming to mourn there every day. She takes the beautiful princess to her husband, and upon seeing his joy, she decides not to stand in their way. She asks her husband to build an abbey, of which, she will be the abbess. And so it is, Guideleuc becomes the abbess of her own abbey, Eliduc marries his love, and they live happily for many years. They do many good deeds, and eventually they decide they want to devote their lives to God, so Guilliadon goes to live with Guideleuc in the Abbey and Eliduc joins a monastary.

The End

Now, I really would like to make some comments here, but I will refrain till I hear what you think of the tale. :)

I didn't realize how long it had been since I blogged last...I've just been enjoying everyone else's posts...it's really one of my favorite things to do in a day, to look at my dashboard and see what's new. And as I'm sitting here I still can only think about...Heather's office kitties, Desi's dreams, Ari dancing, Elizabeth coming to visit, Benjamin's morning words, Lindsey's pregnancy discomfort but beautiful spirit, Todd's chickies and a new way to make chili.