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The oars took the water, and she headed for sea. Out of the smoke came my people, and ran yelling across the open, and I seemed to wake up. "Thrond," I cried, "I take back my promise. Let me go." "Eh!" he said, looking round. I was then with my hands on the gunwale, in the act of leaping overboard, when he reached round and held me fast.
It was plain that the man who saved me from the sea and gave me back my arms did not mean to make a captive of me in any hard sort. "Only mightily hungry," I said. "It seems that I have slept heavily." Thrond jerked his free thumb toward a pitcher and wooden bowl that were set near me, without looking round. "So I suppose," he said. "Eat well, and then we will see what sort of a viking you make.
Omund wept for his death, and gave Homod, whose trusty help he had received in the war, in marriage to one of the daughters of Ring, taking the other himself. At the same time the amazon Rusla, whose prowess in warfare exceeded the spirit of a woman, had many fights in Norway with her brother, Thrond, for the sovereignty.
"There is much in that saying," Thrond answered grimly. "Well," I answered shortly, "I suppose that if any man will set himself against a king or a queen, he has to take the chances." "Small chance for such an one if the queen be well, such another as I helped to set adrift from our shore." Meaningly that was said, and I had no answer.
And that was just a wild thought, for even Thrond could not say for certain that his guess was true, and he had bidden me hold my peace; and thereon I tried to consider that it was no concern of mine where the Lady Hilda went, though it troubled me more than enough to think that she was to go to Quendritha. So I said naught, and the king did not expect any answer.
I was glad that Thorleif showed himself on the bows of the prize and hailed Thrond. "Send the Saxon lad on board here," he said; "we have met with a friend of his." That could be none but the atheling, and I leaped up. The men were heaving on the tow line, and the ships were slowly nearing each other. "Thrond," I said breathlessly, "will Thorleif let me go?" "Of course," he answered, smiling.
His wife was only seen in the parish twice, and on one of these occasions it was to present a child for baptism. This child was a son, and he was called Thrond.
Maybe, had we not been speeding to a fight the like of which I had never so much as heard of, I should have thought of home and the fears of those who would hear that I was gone; but as things were, how could I think of aught but what was on hand? We were nearing the vessel fast, and seeing that she did not turn her head and fly, old Thrond growled that there was some fight in her.
You would have answered it frankly, and without the thought of what might please me, as our courtiers would of course stay to consider. But tell me, what have you heard of Offa and his family?" Now I could say nothing of what I had heard from Thrond; that was impossible. Nor did it seem to me to matter that of it I spoke not.
But he shook his head, telling me that until he had spoken with Thorleif or Thrond, to whom we had passed our word, we must bide; which I saw was right. Presently, as the evening began to close in, Thorleif came to us, and with him was the old chief.
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