"I cannot call him a prisoner, for I owe my own life to him, and freedom also.

He saved me from his father's men." "And let you go thereafter.

I see," answered Hakon.
"Do you know aught of this Viking, Earl Osric ?" This was the chief to whom Hakon had spoken before the boat was run down.

He had told the young king that which had led him to crush her as if her crew were vermin, and wondered to see us save one of them.
"I have heard much of Heidrek, seeing that I am a Northumbrian," he said.

"The track of that ruffian lies black on our coasts; but I have not heard of his son.