"Do so anywise.
These great palaces have strange tricks of passages and doors which are hidden, and the like." "Little shall I sleep tonight if you go on thus," I said, trying to laugh; though it did indeed seem that he had somewhat more than fancy in what he feared, and I grew strangely uneasy.
"Better so," he answered; and I gave it up.
Riding easily, we came back to the palace close after the kings; and in the great courtyard I looked round for Gymbert, but could not see him.

There was nothing in that, of course; but when a man has apparently tried twice to end one, it seems safer to have him in sight.

And Erling, as he took my horse, growled to me to have a care and wear my mail under my tunic; which in itself was disquieting.
Most of all it was so because the affair seemed unreasonable.

I tried honestly to think that all was accident, but two such mishaps from the same hand looked unlike that.
So I went straight to my chamber and did as my comrade bade me, somewhat angry with myself for thinking it needful.

I took a light chain-mail byrnie, of that wondrous Saracen make, which I had won from a chief when we were warring on the western frontier mountains by Roncesvalles, and belted it close to me that it should not rattle as I moved.