“Truly it would be easy to reconcile your strife, if you would submit it
to some just man.”
“Unto yourself!” they both cried. “We give you our word to abide the
judgment you pronounce to us.”
“Then in token that you will accept my verdict, let each lay down his
sword under my foot,” said Sir Artegall, “and then you shall hear my
sentence.”
So each of them laid down his sword out of his hand.