I do not know that I have ever heard aught so terrible as that.

The wildness and savageness of it bides with me, and of a night when the wind blows round the roof I wake and think I hear it again.

But it set me longing for battle, even here on the strange deck, and I would that I might join in it.
And then I knew that my own weapons lay beside me, and I sprang up, and grasped the sword and seax in haste to buckle them on.

They rattled, and the steersman turned his head and laughed at me.

It was old Thrond.
"That is right, lad," he said, turning his head back to watch his course again.