the naked man

A wild, naked man encountered by Thomas, Delphine, and the priest in a stone barn. He was gaunt with ribs showing, had a white beard matted with hay, and wild eyes. He threatened the priest with a rusty scythe, fled across a field, and later returned to shout that the barn was his before running off again.

A wild, emaciated man with a white beard and hair knotted with debris, who was discovered in a barn near Paris. He was seen eating hay, threatened the priest with a scythe, and fled into the woods, shouting that the barn was his. Delphine later wondered if he was the mad father or the husband of the woman found dead there.

The naked man was a wild, white-bearded figure Thomas and Delphine first encountered in a barn, eating hay and wielding a scythe. Later, sick with the plague, he let them into his cottage, revealing he was a failed troubadour who had settled on the land with his wife. He died soon after and was buried by Thomas.