" You’re to grovel.” Æthelwold spoke for the first time. He grinned at me. We were not exactly friends, but we had drunk together often enough and he seemed to like me. “You’re to dress like a girl,” Æthelwold continued, “go on your knees and be humiliated.” “And "

― Bernard Cornwell , The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)