![]() Even before Taran met him, Prince Gwydion was aware of these skills, and sometimes employed Gurgi as a spy. ![]() In addition to his physical attributes of fighting, climbing and riding, Gurgi's keen senses imparted him with a special gift for both spying on adversaries, and finding lost or hidden items. Later, after Taran had refused to strike him dead, Gurgi gave Taran his portion of the honey-comb. ![]() When, during the events of The Book of Three, Gurgi broke his leg trying to obtain a honeycomb from a high tree, he insisted that Taran should cut off his head so he would not slow down the Companions, who were being pursued by Cauldron-Born warriors. He was loyal even unto the peril of death. Gurgi could be ferocious he could wield a sword in battle, fire a bow and arrow, and ride a horse. Gurgi was generous with his bounty, doling the magical food out faithfully to friends and companion, but as Princess Eilonwy remarked, the stuff was rather tasteless. After his courageous part in the battle against the Horned King, Gurgi was rewarded with an enchanted wallet that never ran out of food, until magic itself passed out of Prydain. ![]() Gurgi always referred to himself in the third person (such as "Gurgi found a piggy!"), and often spoke in rhyming or twinned phrases (such as "slashings and gashings"), or in a self-pitying concern for his "poor, tender head." His thoughts frequently turned to food, to which he referred as "crunchings and munchings". ![]()
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