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He left Ubbe to rule in Denmark, while he and Goldborough remained in England, but every two years he sailed across the sea to be sure that all went well in the country of his birth. And for sixty years Havelok and Goldborough lived happily together and had many children, and wherever Havelok went, Goldborough went too. Once upon a time there lived a king who had three daughters.
Our men knew by this time that we had passengers, flying like ourselves from Hodulf, and therefore they were not at all surprised to see Havelok and his mother with their mistress. None of them had ever seen either of them before, as it happened, though I do not think that any could have recognized the queen as she was then, wan and worn with the terror of her long hiding.
"Why, then," answered Havelok, "it seems to me that if we say as I have already said, it is fair on our part. For it is certain that the earl will want to use the axe, and your man is about half his weight, so that would be uneven." "As the challenged man, the earl is entitled to any advantage in weapons." "He needs none. Let us fight fairly or not at all. The earl takes the axe.
"This is work at which I should make a good hand," said Havelok, laughing at the scrambling men who ran forward when the steward again called for porters. "Well paid also the job must be, to judge of their eagerness." The three men who had been chosen took their burden and went away, and the steward came near us, to a bakery that was close to the bridge end.
And does not that make it possible that she wishes to wed him? Therefore I am going to tell the priest the story of Havelok, so far as I know it." "Well thought of. Tell him this also, for now I may surely tell you what you have not yet heard thereof." So I told him how Grim and I had taken Havelok from Hodulf, and then he was the more certain that we had saved the son of our king.
"I have been looking for you," he said, with that curious tone of his that always seemed to be asking pardon for his boldness in speaking to my brother; "for here are games at which they need some one to show the way." "This is a sport that I have not seen before," answered Havelok, looking over the heads of the crowd. "I should make a poor hand at it."
Take now my counsel and get Grim's sons to go with thee to Denmark." In the morning Havelok went to the church and prayed to God to speed him in his undertaking. Then he came home and found Grim's three sons just going off fishing. Their names were Robert the Red, William Wendut, and Hugh Raven.
"Him loved all, quiet or bold, Knight, children, young and old, All him loved that him saw, Both high men and low, Of him full wide the word sprang How he was meek, how he was strong." At last even the wicked Godrich in his palace heard of Havelok in the kitchen. "Now truly this is the best man in England," he said, with a sneer.
Then Havelok stared at him in blank wonder for some moments; and Alsi grew red under his gaze, and his eyes were shifty, and would not meet the honest look that was on him. Then at last said Havelok slowly, and watching the king intently all the while, "What this means I cannot tell. If you speak truth, it is wonderful; and if not, it is unkingly."
I will speak with him in open hall, and more than he shall learn how he thought to slay Havelok." All thought that this was good, and I was to go at once. It was but a few hours' ride, as has been said, to his town, and the matter was as well done with. So they gave me a guard of twenty of the jarl's courtmen, and in half an hour I was riding northward on my errand.
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