She will be a Frankish trader going home, and worth overhauling.

Maybe there will be no fight, however; but one never knows." Now it was in my mind to ask him what would be done with me, but I did not.

That was perhaps a matter which must be settled hereafter, and not on the eve of a fight at sea.

Moreover, I thought that a Frankish ship was fair game for any one, and that if I were needed there was no reason at all why I should not take a hand in the fight.

Certainly I should fare no worse for taking my plight in the best way I could.