"That you are the son of my old friend Leofric of Chester: and the hottest-hearted, shrewdest-headed, hardest-handed Berserker in the North Seas. You killed Gilbert of Ghent's bear, Siward Digre's cousin. Don't deny it." "Don't hang me, or send me to the Westminster miracle-worker to be hanged, and I will confess." "I? Every man is welcome who comes hither with a bold hand and a strong heart.