They liked not the look of Odin's Ring, and the ground over which they had marched and the fugitives with whom they had spoken told them that many of them looked their last upon the moon.
Some mounted generals rode towards us and asked who was in command of the Northmen.

When they learned that it was Jodd, they invited him to a parley.

The end of it was that Jodd and two others stepped twenty paces from our ranks, and met a councillor--it was Stauracius--and two of the generals in the open, where no treachery could well be practised, especially as Stauracius was not a man of war.

Here they talked together for a long while.

Then Jodd and his companions returned, and Jodd said, so that all might hear him: "Hearken.