A sword

Act 1 Scene 4 - Stonehenge

WITCHES

[WEAVING THREAD]

Into this dark world men are born like every other natural thing, man lives
on taking fair and foul weather, and like

all natural things death takes he due and away to a place that none have return'd. To the land beyond the stars as an angel, to Tartarus, or
the land of dreams.

WITCH2

[MEASURING THE THREAD]

Lo, here come our impish son.

[Enter FALCON]

To give report as we sit in this temple of standing stones (1).

WITCH1

[at the spinning wheel]

Of thing we already know.

FALCON

Ho ho what fun it was. Hail verthandi mothers darning the lots of men,
cabbages, and kings (2).

[He kisses each of them]

Dearest, beautiful skuld ladies, I serve you three equally. (2) Dutifully I
have set the son of Lear as divine High King. (4)

WITCH 2

[adding more length to the sting]

Though, High King Bran is having a bad time to maintain his position - he
needs a sword.

FALCON

Done.

[bows]

I will find one for him that suits a High King's metal. Please excuse my
leaving urd mothers; I must fly

[transforms into a hawk and flies off]

WITCH 3

[slices the string with scissors]

What is this I see? A greater king? With Bran's sword?

WITCH 1

What? Tell us Decumba sister.

WITCH3

There on the white cliff a mist rises during a horrible war.

The mist parted to reveal a great host, a titanic ghostly army of the long dead brave. At its head, the High King greater than Bran with a Godly sword saying unto the evil army across in Gaul that if the crooked-
cross is set her, he with one blow will send them back again. (3)

WITCH 2

So it is to be spoken.

WITCH 1

So it must be true.

Cliff notes to Scene 4

One:

Temple of standing stones, Stonehenge

Two:

Verthandi, Skuld, Urd - the Viking Norns, or Fates (Decumba)

Three:

There are reports during the blitz, World War Two that the ghost of

King Arthur with an army was seen marching at the White Cliffs of Dover ready to repulse the Nazi Invasion (crooked-cross, is Nostradamus's
term for the swastika) , there was a photograph of it!
(However the photo was lost or suppressed by the British government)

Four:

I might as well explain how many wives Lear had. His first wife was Iweriadd, Queen of the Irish and aunt of the tyrant Matholwch, by her he
had Regan, Branwen, Goneral, and others. His second wife, Penardun, daughter of Don, was the mother of Prince Cammalis, who was baptized Bran by Joseph of Arimathea. He had several mistresses, including Euroswydd, who
is the mother of Nissyen.