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Now no man dared to come forward, and that angered Havelok. "Are you going to let these two bide there?" he said. "Pick the poor knaves from under the stone and timber, and see to them." But they hung back yet, and he called them "nidring." Thereat two or three made a step forward, and one said, "Lord, let us do as you bid us, and harm us not."
My daughter laid command on me that I should seek you and tell you this; but indeed I needed no bidding when I heard how she escaped." "I had been nidring had I not helped a lady in need," I said, being in want of better words. "What is all this?" said Odda; for I had told him nought of the matter, not seeing any reason to do so.
One fiery young thane, indeed, was minded to fight Wislac, but the Mercian turned the quarrel very skilfully, and in the end agreed with the thane that the matter should be settled by the number of Danes each should slay, "which," said Wislac, "will be as good sport and more profitable than pounding one another, and quite as good proof that neither of us may be held nidring."
"In the way of the girl who helped you slay Morgan," he said grimly. "She would hold him nidring if he had not wished to go." We went to the door and looked out. All the road was dotted with men from the nearer villages who came to the gathering, and as they marched, each after the reeve of the place, they sang. And past the hindmost of them came a single horseman hurrying.
Is that matter settled otherwise?" "Not at all," he answered. "I believe now that he was acting under orders, but I have said things to him which he cannot pass over. I called him 'nidring' to his face, and that I still mean; for though I thought of cowardice at the time, he is none the less so if he has plotted against the princess. So naught but the sword will end the feud."
"Have I your leave to try to keep it?" "You have had full leave to be a good friend of ours all these years, as you say, and I do not see that the vow binds you to more. No one thinks that you are likely to forget last night, or any one who took part in that cruel business. And if a friend will not help to guard a lady well, he would be just nidring, no more or less."
"Ragnar is my cousin," she said, "or a good brother to me, if you will. Moreover, until the other day when he met me in London by some good fortune, I had hardly seen him since my father died." "What think you of Griffin?" "Nothing at all, for nidring he is," answered Goldberga with curling lip.
I do not think that you mean this." "Do you need to be called nidring ?" he snarled at me. Now none heard that word pass between us, and though it made me bitterly angry I kept my wrath back. Truly I began to think that I was foolish to argue with him; but there would be grief, lifelong, at Penhurst if deadly harm befell either of us where none could say that all was fairly fought out.
"We should not have left the men, for I knew that he was leagued with Quantock outlaws." "A nidring set, too," said Wulf savagely. "Can't they show themselves?" As if the men had heard him, they came from the cover even as he spoke.
Now, though Wislac's words seemed idle at the beginning, there was that in his last words which brought several of the younger thanes to their feet, looking angrily at him, and one asked if he meant to call that assembly "nidring".
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