The Silver Stallion

They relate how Dom Manuel that was the high Count of Poictesme, & was everywhere esteemed the most lucky & the least scrupulous rogue of his times, had disappeared out of his castle at Storisende, without any reason or forewarning, upon the feast day of St Michael & All the Angels. They tell of the confusion & dismay which arose in Dom Manuel’s lands when it was known that Manuel the Redeemer–thus named because he had redeemed Poictesme from the Northmen, thru the aid of Miramon Lluagor, with a great & sanguinary magic, was now gone, quite inexplicably out of these lands.