Something about the performance review process, possibly: "[...] he was captured in his sleep by King Niðhad in Nerike who ordered him hamstrung and imprisoned

Something about the performance review process, possibly: "[...] he was captured in his sleep by King Niðhad in Nerike who ordered him hamstrung and imprisoned [...]" (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_Smith).