Foremost among these is the steward. He is the man who collects the tribute, arranges the work of the other servants, and who looks after the food and drink and sleeping places in his lord’s household. A steward’s honour price is half the honour price of the taoiseach. WHAT A SHAME THAT Turlough was not there; he would have enjoyed that, thought Mara, allowing a laugh to ring out as she galloped along the narrow valley that carved its way through the Aillwee Mountain. The wind was gusting strongly from the west, blowing back the hood of her brat, but the picture of Slaney fasting before her gate in order to obtain justice was enough to keep her in good humour. ‘I’d better send Cumhal with a letter to Turlough,’ she muttered. As overlord, the king should be aware of the danger towards the peace of the region posed by Slaney’s plans of a ‘blood feud’. Now she was half sorry that she had put the hearing of Niall’s case forward to the following Saturday. The sooner the whole situation of the mill was resolved the better.
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