The White Company Chapter 14 - How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture

In which Sir Nigel and his squires traverse a wintry woodland path, encountering roadside figures that offer both insight and challenge to their chivalrous purpose, including a blind beggar, a quarrelsome archer and his mother, a grim royal messenger, and a bitter enmity played out between two forest-dwellers. Through these varied meetings, the knight reflects on honour, courtesy, and the changing nature of knightly adventure amid the harsh realities of their wartime journey.