So he began to speak: “Sir,” said the Wildman, “one evening you happened to go to bed with your wife, who is over there. And after you had fallen asleep, a dream came to you in which you saw a sow before you that was fair and well-groomed. And the bristles on its back were so long that they trailed more than a yard behind it. And it had on its head a circle of shining gold. It seemed to you that it had been bred in your household, but you could not recognize it, although it seemed to you that you had seen it before. And after you had wondered at this thing for a time, you saw twelve beautiful, well-groomed wolf cubs come out of your bedroom and go to the sow into the middle of the hall. All twelve lay with it one after the other, and when they had done to it as they wished, they went back into the bedroom. Then you went straight to your barons and asked them what should be done with that sow you had seen behaving in such a way, and the barons answered that it was unworthy and unfaithful, and they condemned it to be burned along with the cubs. Then a great and wonderful fire was set in this courtyard, and the sow and the cubs were burned. Now you have heard the dream just as it came to you in your sleep, and if I am mistaken in anything, say so before your barons.”

And the emperor said that he was not mistaken in even
one word.

Vulgate Merlin