Why is the jarl so angry ?" "Why, because the bishop has escaped us.

We never saw so much as his horse's tail.

And if he be like the bishop we saw at Hedeby, I am glad." "Surely he is," I said.

"But now I have come to offer ransom for the king, and you must tell Guthrum and the other chiefs that it would be paid very quickly if they will take it." At that Raud shook his head.
"I will tell them, but it is of little use.

There has been talk of it before, but when we came into East Anglia Ingvar claimed the king for himself, giving up all else." "Why ?" I asked.
"Because when he made Beorn speak, Beorn said that Eadmund the King had set him on to slay Lodbrok.