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'A bed-death, a priest death, A straw death, a cow death, Such death likes not me! Nor likes it me either, Hereward Leofricsson." So the Danes sailed away: but Sigtryg Ranaldsson and his five ships remained. Hereward went to the minster tower, and watched the Ouse flashing with countless oars northward toward Southrey Fen.
"I know thee not, good knight, more pity; but by thy dress and carriage, thou shouldest be a true Viking's son." "I am Sigtryg Ranaldsson, now King of Waterford. And my wife said to me, 'If there be treachery or faint-heartedness, remember this, that Hereward Leofricsson slew the Ogre, and Hannibal of Gweek likewise, and brought me safe to thee.
And, therefore, if thou provest false to him, niddering thou art; and no niddering is spouse of mine." "Thou art Sigtryg Ranaldsson?" cried Hereward, clasping him in his arms, as the scenes of his wild youth rushed across his mind. "Better is old wine than new, and old friends likewise." "And I, and my five ships, are thine to death. Let who will go back."
Hereward did not care to undeceive them. But he could not help speaking his mind in the abbot's chamber to Thurstan, Egelwin, and his nephews, and to Sigtryg Ranaldsson, who was still in Ely, not only because he had promised to stay there, but because he could not get out if he would. Blockaded they were utterly, by land and water.
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