If Hubba comes indeed, we women folk will be in the fort." Then I said, being at a loss for words enough: "I would I had the tongue of Harek the scald, that I might thank you for gift and words, my fairy princess." "I have half a mind to take it back for that fine saying," she answered.
And then she gave me her hand, and I kissed it; and she went from me with her eyes full of tears for all the trouble that was on us, though she had tried bravely to carry it off lightly.
Then I would stay in the house no longer, but went out to the fort, and sat down by the great Dragon banner of Wessex, Heregar's charge, that floated there, and ate and drank with the other chiefs, and waited.

But my mind was full of what I had heard, and the war talk went on round me without reaching my ears..