now then did flinding have space to tell turin all he knew and of his meeting with beleg , and the floods of turin 's tears were loosed , and he wept bitterly , for beleg had been his comrade often in many deeds ; and this was the third anguish that befell turin , nor did he lose the mark of that sorrow utterly in all his life ; and long he wandered with flinding caring little whither he went , and but for that gnome soon would he have been recaptured or lost , for he thought only of the stark face of beleg the huntsman , lying in the dark forest slain by his hand even as he cut the bonds of thraldom from him .