`` it seems to me fair yonder fell has many a glorious name to tell ; it speaks of battles fought and won , on ling-bound slopes of purpled dun ; it tells of castles and of rooks , of gibbet trees and cheated crooks ; of might and mien ; of all between the sky and earth , and arts unseen ; it tells of honour and of strength in sagas of an epic length ; but a name can be but one thing cried , and that one thing forsooth is 'pride . ' ''