I must get some safe conduct from the Danish folk here if I come into the Water.

So being tired of doing nought I even rode up to this place to see if aught could be managed for a voyage." Now I thought that I was in luck's way, for from this man, who seemed honest enough, I could perhaps gain all I wanted.

His ship was a great buss, fitted with a cabin fore and aft under the raised decks, and I could wish for no better chance than this might be.
"Would you take passengers for Normandy instead of goods ?" I asked him carelessly.
"Aye, truly, and gladly if they could pay well." "Now I will tell you that I am Earl Wulfnoth's friend," I said, "and you may know that pay is safe, therefore.

I was at Pevensea when Olaf the Thick, the viking, came there." He took my word for my friendship with the earl, and then I arranged for all things to be ready for us in a week's time.

We had some rough country to cross before we came to Bosham, and I would not hurry over it.