Acknowledge my service, honour my wit, give me the throne if I have earned it; for you have in me one who has done you a mighty service, and who is no degenerate heir to his father's power; no fratricide, but the lawful successor to the throne; and a dutiful avenger of the crime of murder.

It is I who have stripped you of slavery, and clothed you with freedom; I have restored your height of fortune, and given you your glory back; I have deposed the despot and triumphed over the butcher.
In your hands is the reward; you know what I have done for you, and from your righteousness I ask my wage." Every heart had been moved while the young man thus spoke; he affected some to compassion, and some even to tears.

When the lamentation ceased, he was appointed king by prompt and general acclaim.

For one and all rested their greatest hopes on his wisdom, since he had devised the whole of such an achievement with the deepest cunning, and accomplished it with the most astonishing contrivance.

Many could have been seen marvelling how he had concealed so subtle a plan over so long a space of time.
After these deeds in Denmark, Amleth equipped three vessels, and went back to Britain to see his wife and her father.