Tell me, have you heard that he is cruel to those he takes ?" "Rather I have heard that he is not," I said.

"Moreover, if Emma of Normandy suffers aught at his hands he will have the duke to deal with very shortly." "Now are we in the Lord's hands," said Elfric, for a hoarse hail came from the leading ship, which was to windward of us.

She was a splendid dragonship, bright with gold and colour.
"What will you have me do, master ?" Bertric cried to me.
"They can do what they will with us whatever we try.

We may fare better by obeying," I said, for in truth there was nought else to do.
Now the great ship ranged up alongside of us, and the tall warrior at the helmsman's side hailed us again to heave to.

And I saw a man bend his bow, and an arrow flew down the wind and stuck in the deck not far from me.