And as I slept in my place, with the standard flapping above me, and my comrades on either side and behind, it seemed to me that one came and waked me.

And when I sat up and looked, thinking it was a messenger from the bishop, I saw that it was Matelgar.
Now this time I had no fear of him, and I waited for him to speak, just as though he had been before me in the flesh, for there seemed naught uncanny about the matter to me.

And yet even at the moment that seemed strange, though it was so.
But for a while he looked not at me, but out over the low lands towards Parret mouth and Stert, shading his eyes with his hand as though it were broad noonday.

And then he turned back to me and spoke.
"Heregar; I promised to stand by you again when the time came.

Now I bid you go to Combwich hill, there to wait what betides.