This story is told by two old English chroniclers, Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newbridge. The events are supposed to have taken place in the twelfth century, some say in the reign of King Stephen. This would have been some two generations after the Norman conquest, when people were speaking a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French.
One bright sunny day, some good people from the village of St Mary's in Suffolk, found two children wandering and crying near a wolf pit. The children, a girl and a younger boy, were like normal humans in shape, but their skin and hair were green. The children seemed to be dazzled by the sunlight and confused. They spoke in a strange language and did not appear to understand what the villagers said to them.
Not knowing what else to do, the people of St Mary's took the children to the house of Sir Richard de Caine. His was the biggest household in the district and he had room in which to shelter the children. Even Sir Richard, who was a man of the world, could not understand what the children were saying. They were treated kindly, and meat and bread was set before them.
The children appeared to be hungry, but pushed the bread and meat aside and continued to weep. Then, by chance, some green broad beans were brought in from the gardens. Eagerly, the children snatched at them but opened the stalks instead of the pods, and when they found no beans inside they once more fell to weeping. A member of the household showed the children how to open the pods and find the fat beans inside. At last the children ate and became more composed in their manner.
The children stayed with Sir Richard de Caine. At first they ate only green food and the boy became depressed and sickly. Sadly, he died, but the girl learned to eat the same food as the rest of the household and she lost her green colour and took on the appearance of a normal human being. After a while she came to speak the Anglo-Norman language of her benefactors and at last she was able to tell her story.
The girl said that she had lived in a land where the light was always dim and dappled, where all the animals and the people were green, as she had been. She said that her home was called St Martin's Land and that although the people were Christian, she thought they also worshipped St Martin. The sun never rose in St Martin's Land, but a bright country could be seen far away, across a wide river. One day she and her brother were tending their flocks when they came to the entrance of a large cavern. They heard the sound of sweet bells and could not resist going into the cavern to see what was making the beautiful music. On and on and-up and up they wandered, through twisting passages, until suddenly they camee out into brilliant sunlight. They had never seen the sun, nor such bright daylight before. Their eyes hurt and their heads ached. They blundered about in confusion and could not find their way back to the entrance into the cavern. After hours and hours, when they were hungry and exhausted, they were found by the villagers. Many times after this, Sir Richard ordered a search to be made for the entrance to the cavern, but it was never found. The girl remained in service in Sir Richard's household, and when she was grown up she married a man from Lerma.
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