Horns of the Hunter

A slanderous ditty most popular in Malmor and Caervil, about the alleged cuckolding of Elderan, Prince of Kaevil by Ruthven, Count of Malmor who was said to be the lover of Elderan's wife Riala of Genlith
As I roved out one Summer morn’
Down by the woodland’s edge of green
I heard the hunter blow his horn
And then I saw a sight, a sight,
The strangest that I’ve seen

Upon a horse of shining grey
The huntsman in his armour fine
He stopped by me and then did say
In words so low and lost, and lost
I’m hunting for what’s mine

A horn of silver at his side
And there upon his princely head
Two more great horns* I clearly spied
Upon his helm so strong, so strong
So this is what I said!

You are a wealthy man of course
So little do you lack or need
And you ride on a mighty horse
But ravens ride they say, they say
Upon a wolf indeed.
* The symbolic appearance of horns upon a married man's brow was poetic shorthand for a man whose wife was unfaithful to him.

The song was first recorded in writing in 919 and became popular as a song in lands ruled by House Malmor and House Caervil throughout the period of The Sundering