Twice have you offered your life today, and yet there is work for you.

Be content to wait." So he passed, looking kindly at me, and then the blackness came over me again.
When I came round at last it was high day, and the air was full of smoke around me.

One sat on a great brown horse looking at me, and by my side cried my dog; and I groaned, whereat the man got off his horse and came to me.

And I knew that it was Hubba, and some of the men I knew were there also.
"Why, Wulfric, friend, how is this?
I thought you were dead.

Who has dared to hurt you?
What has happened here ?" "You know well," I gasped.
"Nay, I know not; I have but now ridden this way with our rear guard," he answered, seeming to pity me.
"Look in the church and see," I said, groaning.