Nothing that is patched up can have the lustre of the unimpaired, and rumour will recount for ages that Frode was taken captive.

Moreover, if ye reckon the calamities I have inflicted on you, I have deserved to die at your hands; if ye recall the harms I have done, ye will repent your kindness.

Ye will be ashamed of having aided a foe, if ye consider how savagely he treated you.

Why do ye spare the guilty?
Why do ye stay your hand from the throat of your persecutor?
It is fitting that the lot which I had prepared for you should come home to myself.

I own that if I had happened to have you in my power as ye now have me, I should have paid no heed to compassion.
But if I am innocent before you in act, I am guilty at least in will.