They meet the malicious Dreng, owner of the eponymous ferry and an alehouse, his spoiled daughter Cwenberg, and his two wives Leongifu (Leaf), Ethel, and a Welsh slave, Blod, who Dreng prostitutes. Degbert, Dean of the church, and landlord of the family, is brother to Dreng and a distant relation to Wynston, Wigelm, and Wilf. The extended family of Wystan is irredeemably corrupt and cruel.