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"Ho, brother!" he cried; "I thought you had harboured the greatest bear in all Jutland in Raud's hut. And it is naught but two strangers. What is the trouble with them?" "Look at yon man's hand," said Ingvar. I held out my hand, and Hubba looked at the rings, whereupon his face lit up as Halfden's had lighted, and he said: "News of our father and brother!
I asked the names of those three, and he told me, even as I had feared, that they were called Ingvar and Hubba and Halfden; and so I knew that the blow was falling, and that Ingvar had stirred up other chiefs to join him, and so when the host gathered at some great Thing, he and his brothers had been hailed kings over the mighty following that should do their bidding in the old Danish way.
Again the Saxon lunged, and Hubba hewed at the spear shaft, splintering it a little as the quick-eyed spearman swung it away from the blow. Then the butt was over Odda's left shoulder, and before one could tell that its swing aside had ended, forward flew the point, darting from left to right over Hubba's arm that had not yet recovered from the lost axe blow, and behind the shield's rim.
"Other was the meeting I had planned for you and me, Wulfric, my brother-in-arms. Yet you are most welcome, for you at least are here to tell me of the days that are past." "It is an ill telling," said Ingvar. "That must needs be, seeing what is to be told," Hubba said quickly.
Be content to wait." So he passed, looking kindly at me, and then the blackness came over me again. When I came round at last it was high day, and the air was full of smoke around me. One sat on a great brown horse looking at me, and by my side cried my dog; and I groaned, whereat the man got off his horse and came to me. And I knew that it was Hubba, and some of the men I knew were there also.
"We shall not be foremost long," I said; "we shall be surrounded when once we are through the line." But as we came on, Hubba closed up his men into a dense, square mass. "Ho!" said Harek to me; "you are wrong, my king." Now we were close at hand, and the Danish arrows flew among us, and the javelins fell pretty thickly.
Hubba, the Dane, having spread devastation, fire, and slaughter over Wales, had landed in Devonshire from twenty-three vessels, and laid siege to the castle of Kenwith, a place situated near the mouth of the small river Tau.
We got back safely that time, and I sent the same men again, thinking that there was no danger, and so not going myself. They got back, indeed, but with a party of Danes after them; and but for our arrow flights from the earthworks, they would have had to fight, and lose what they brought. After that Hubba knew what we needed, and sent a strong picket to keep us from the marsh.
"Let him go with Raud until I have spoken with Beorn," answered Ingvar, "then we shall be sure if he is friend or not." Hubba nodded, and he and I rose up and went out to the porch, where Raud and Rolf waited with the two guards. We passed them and stood in the courtyard. "I believe you, Wulfric," said Hubba, "for I know a true man when I see him."
That is well; tell us, friend, all that you know." "Stay," said Ingvar; "I took yon man from the boat we made for our father; he was half dead therein, and his wrists have the marks of cords on them; also when he heard my name he began to cry for mercy, and I like it not." "This friend of our folk will tell us all," said Hubba. "Aye," said I, "I will tell you, Jarls.
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