How Lord Caplan the Brave made battle with a giant, and met a wounded warrior, who did become his friend.

Lord Caplan the Brave, a knight of great respect and prowess in many lands near and far, came one day traveling upon a town that appeared to him as being shrouded in sorrow and darkness. What evil is this? he wondered whilst riding through. Presently, he stopped at a house that looked to him as a tavern though he saw no sign, and knocked on the door and called to those inside: Hark! Open the door!

A portly fellow opened the door but enough to look outside, and saw Lord Caplan, arrayed full in his armor except for his helmet, which he bore neath his arm. Oh, good sir knight! cried the fellow and threw open the door.

Lord Caplan asked of the man: What news, sir, that so shuts people in their homes and closes a tavern door on such a day as this?

Sir knight, what dost thou know of giants and their kin, for our plague is one such who steals and kills at will, and many folk are a-feared for their lives!