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Old foes has Havelok, as Radbard knows, and therefore it may be well to find a new name for him." "No need to go far for that," Withelm said. "The marsh folk call him Curan." "Curan, the wonder, is good," Arngeir said, after a little thought, for we all knew Welsh enough by this time. "Or if you like a Danish name better, brother, call it 'Kwaran, but silent about yourself you must surely be."
"All this is strange," he said thoughtfully; "but if Havelok our brother is indeed a king's son, it is only what he is like in all his ways. Wise was our father Grim, and I mind how he seemed always to be careful of him in every way, and good reason must he have had not to say what he knew. We will not ask aught until the time of which Arngeir knows has come.
And even as the queen came to the top step, where there was no rail, for the steps were not amidships, but alongside the gunwale, one of these jerks came; and in a moment she was in the sea, and in a moment also Arngeir was after her, for he was a fine swimmer. The Vikings cried out as they saw this, but the poor queen said no word, nor did she ever rise again after the first time.
So everything went quietly until after we had our midday meal. We were all amidships on the wide deck, except my father and Arngeir, who sat side by side on the steersman's bench on the high poop. There was no spray coming on board, for we were running, and the ship was very steady.
Already Arngeir and the men are at work on the ship, getting the rollers under her keel, that she may take the water with the next tide. I shall sail with the tide that comes with the darkness again, saying that I shall find cargo elsewhere in other ports, as I have done once before." "I had not looked to say farewell to you quite so soon," my mother said; "but this is right.
Then he saw his mother; and how those two met, who had thought each other lost beyond finding, I will not try to say. I closed the door softly and left them, locking it again, and found Withelm close to me, and Arngeir watching to see that all went well.
Tell him, brother, that it was not so; say that I knew him as the husband Heaven sent for me when first I saw him." Now Havelok listened to Arngeir as he told him the well-kept secret, and now and again asked a question. And when all was told he said, "Now have the dreams passed, and the light is come. I mind all plainly from the first."
At that time he told Arngeir all that he foresaw, and set things in order, that we three should not be backward when need was. He called us to him, Havelok not being present, and spoke to us. "Sons," he said, "well have you all obeyed me all these years, and I think that you will listen to me now, for I must speak to you of Havelok, who came to us as you know.
Arngeir was yet uneasy about it, nevertheless, as one could see; but I did not at that time know why it should be so doubtful a matter that two strong men should go forth and seek their fortune but thirty miles away. So we laughed at him. "Well," he said, "every one knows Radbard; but they will want to know who his tall comrade may be.
It is likely that she was drawn under the longship at once. So for a little while there was no talk of terms or fighting, but all held their breath as they watched to see if the queen floated alongside anywhere; but there was only Arngeir, who swam under the lee of the Viking, and called to her men for guidance.
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