Here he stopped for a while, shook his head, and then said:
“I have forgotten what she prophesied, but I will soon recollect.”
He began to think, and they waited silently, because the popular belief was that the queen could see the future.
“Aha!” said he, finally, “I remember now! The queen said, that if every knight went with Witold against The Lame-Man, then heathenish power would be destroyed. But all cannot go because of the dishonesty of Christian lords. We are obliged to guard the boundaries from the attacks of the Czechs and the Hungarians and also from the attacks of the Order, because we cannot trust any of them. Therefore if Witold go with only a handful of Polish warriors, then Tymur the Lame, or his wojewodas, coming with innumerable hosts, will defeat him.”
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