ou take another sip of mead and begin by saying: "There is not very much to tell! The Meysenplauk family is one of farmers. My grand grandfather lived and died while pulling out crops from the ground and so did my grandfather. But my father, Vazlaf of Meisenplauk, put the idea into his head to become a nobleman. He bought the land around a wooden castle that had been abandoned and ever since the name of Meisenplauks follows the way of the lance, the horse and the painted shield."