"Now tell me what you are thinking of doing.

Maybe I can advise you, being an adventurer by choice, as it seems you must be by need.

But first I will offer you both a share in our cruise, if you will turn viking and go the way of Hengist and Horsa, your forbears.

Atheling and thane's son you will be to us still, if you have to take an oar now and then." "Kindly spoken," said Ecgbert; "but this I will tell you plainly.
It had not come into my mind to think that Bertric needed to fear me until he showed that he did so.

Had he left me to myself, I had been as good a subject of Wessex as Wilfrid here.