I cannot now." So Raud bided in the farm with me for a while, and now with new thoughts and with his talk of Halfden and Osritha, I mended quickly, for it was my troubled mind that had kept me back mostly, as I cared for nothing.
One day I felt strong again, waking up and taking delight in the smell of the fresh morning and in the sunlight.

And I ate heartily of the brown bread and milk they gave me, and afterwards told Raud of what I had been long thinking.
"All things are quiet in the land now.

Let us gather a few of my people and seek the head of our king, if you fear not to go into Hoxne woods." Raud thought for a while before he answered me.
"I fear not, for the poor king thanked me, smiling at me.

Let me go with you." So that day the dame sent messages by her son to some who had come back to their places, and in the evening when he came home, there were with him two of Bishop Humbert's monks, dressed like churls, for they dared not wear their habits.

These two and some others would gladly come with me on my search.
Next day, therefore, they set me on a pony that was quiet, and slowly we went towards Hoxne, coming thither in the afternoon early, seeing no Danes anywhere, while many of our folk were back and at work in the fields.
Then I asked Raud if these poor people were safe now.
"Surely, master," he said, for so he would call me, having heard the farm people name me thus.