"The fires run thence.

Maybe the ship we saw went down the coast and has returned." Now we woke Dalfin, who came out yawning, and looked.
"Danes, I suppose," he said carelessly.

"That is the usual trouble; or else Connaught men on the raid.

Well, as we cannot get at them, we need not trouble concerning them.

And they cannot reach us." "The fires sprang up quickly as if men watched by them tonight," said Bertric.