Thringish folk settled the swamps and rolling hills and pushed the Daz and other ante-Thringish folk beneath the hills and below the still waters. After the final withdrawal, a delegation of Daz visited the chapel of the Green Lady at the camp of General Tarengael and cut a horse into the turf. They then rolled back the grass and the white chalk has shone through ever since.
What this gesture from the Daz, not a horse riding people, was meant to convey is unclear. One suggestion that survives in the folk traditions of the cunning folk of Thring is that the horse is an oblique warning of a coming flood. The outlines of horses are often seen in sea froth.
Whatever the explanation, the priests of the Green Lady have not disturbed the horse in all these years.
Hooks
- So Castle Tarengael is named after the general who pushed out the Daz? Tell me more.
- Is the horse really a flood warning? Or perhaps a threat?
- Are there other ante-Thring tribes out there? What are they like?
