Crossword-Solution: STEADING 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

She had said to Bersi, “I wish thee to take a little gift from me, and good luck follow it.” This was a target bound with iron; and she said she reckoned Bersi would hardly be hurt if he carried it to shield him,--“but it is little worth beside this steading thou hast given me.” He thanked her for the gift, and so they parted.

But he married a bonny young quean, Jean Lightbody, auld Lightbody’s daughter, him that was in the steading of Loup-the-Dyke; and auld Lightbody was married himsell to Marion, that was about my lady in the family forty years syne.

They met those charging hosts with hearts as light As calves bear, when they leap to meet the kine Down faring from hill-pastures in the spring Unto the steading, when the fields are green With corn-blades, when the earth is glad with flowers, And bowls are brimmed with milk of kine and ewes, And multitudinous lowing far and near Uprises as the mothers meet their young, And in their midst the herdman joys; so great Was the uproar that rose when met the fronts Of battle: dread it rang on either hand.

Then had the Argives a short breathing-space From war, when they had penned the hosts of Troy In Priam's burg, as shepherds pen up lambs Upon a lonely steading.

Like wild beasts trapped and stabbed within a fold On a lone steading, frenziedly they fought, Mad with despair-enkindled rage, beneath That night of horror.