It will be hard if we cannot find a ship to serve us--even if not men who will sail to set a queen in her place once more." "If that fails," put in Bertric, "we will go to England and speak with Hakon himself.

Maybe he will take you back to Norway when he sails.

For he will sail." Gerda laughed, and shook her head again.
"You make too much of me.

Hakon would not heed so small a matter.
No, take me to Norway, and I will find my cousins who are in the south, and there I may be welcome.

At least, I shall be no burden to them, and they are folk who live on their own land.