Chapter Eleven: The City of Al-Je-Bal 

"I pray you have done," said Godwin, "it is but a scratch from the beast's claws. I am ashamed that you should put your hair to such vile uses. Give me a little water." 

He asked it of Wulf, but Masouda rose without a word and fetched the water, in which she mingled wine. Godwin drank of it and his faintness left him, so that he was able to stand up and move his arms and legs. 

"Why," he said, "it is nothing; I was only shaken. That lioness did not hurt me at all." 

"But you hurt the lioness," said Wulf, with a laugh. "By St. Chad a good thrust!" and he pointed to the long sword driven up to the hilt in the brute's breast. "Why, I swear I could not have made a better myself." 

"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 

So Wulf set his foot upon the breast of the lion and tugged and tugged until at length he loosened the sword, saying as he strained at it: 

"Oh! what an Essex hog am I, who slept through it all, never waking until Masouda seized me by the hair, and I opened my eyes to see you upon the ground with this yellow beast crouched on the top of you like a hen on a nest egg. I thought that it was alive and smote it with my sword, which, had I been fully awake, I doubt if I should have found the courage to do. Look," and he pushed the lioness's head with his foot, whereon it twisted round in such a fashion that they perceived for the first time that it only hung to the shoulders by a thread of skin. 
Who pulled a weapon out of something?
What kind of weapon?
What was it stuck in?
Did he call himself a name as he pulled?
Who grabbed his hair?
What state was the animals neck?
What connected the neck to the body?
Who had fought the animal?
Was he injured?
Badly?
Who got some H2O?
What was it combined with?
Did it help?
Was he casual about the whole thing?
Are the two men related?
In what way?
Did Godwin take credit for the killing blow?
What did he say happened?
wulf
So Wulf set his foot upon the breast of the lion and tugged and tugged until at length he loosened the sword, saying as he strained at it: 
long sword
long sword driven up to the hilt in the brute's breast. 
lioness
"But you hurt the lioness," said Wulf, with a laugh. "By St. Chad a good thrust!" and he pointed to the long sword driven up to the hilt in the brute's breast. 
Essex hog
"Oh! what an Essex hog am I, who slept through it all, never waking until Masouda seized me by the hair, and I opened my eyes to see you upon the ground with this yellow beast crouched on the top of you like a hen on a nest egg. 
Masouda
never waking until Masouda seized me by the hair
bad
whereon it twisted round in such a fashion that they perceived for the first time that it only hung to the shoulders by a thread of skin. 
unknown
unknown
Godwin
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 
yes
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 
no
"I pray you have done," said Godwin, "it is but a scratch from the beast's claws. I am ashamed that you should put your hair to such vile uses. Give me a little water." 
wulf
He asked it of Wulf, but Masouda rose without a word and fetched the water, in which she mingled wine. Godwin drank of it and his faintness left him, so that he was able to stand up and move his arms and legs. 
wine
He asked it of Wulf, but Masouda rose without a word and fetched the water, in which she mingled wine. 
yes
Godwin drank of it and his faintness left him, so that he was able to stand up and move his arms and leg
yes
"it is nothing; I was only shaken. That lioness did not hurt me at all." 
yes
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 

brothers
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 
no
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 
the lion shoved into the sword
"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak." 