So this seemed to me to be quite enough to explain Uldra's first refusal, and though I believe that Relf had been on the point of telling me more, he forbore, and let this suffice.
Relf knew where to look for a beast, and we soon had a good bay pony, that was quiet enough and strong, sent to Godwine's stables.
And then Relf told the earl what he had done.
"Then I was right," said Godwine gleefully.

"I will warrant that you two wise heads would never have thought thereof." "Are you coming with us ?" I asked him, for I did not care to have to find answers to many questions about our speech with Uldra, as things were.
"I am coming by sea presently with two ships," he said.

"I shall wait till Bertric comes back, and so maybe shall have news of your queen to tell you.

He should not be long.

Relf goes back for the early hay time, he says, but I believe that he is tired of the sea." "I am no sailor, lord," the thane said.
"As any of my crew will tell you," Godwine said merrily.
"Never, Redwald, was any man so undone as Relf when there is a little sea on.