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"Why," he answered, "I don't know that it is. But your folk would pay no ransom, and it would seem foolish if I had let you go offhand. Not but what your folk have not proved their wisdom, for they have got rid of us pretty cheaply. Odin! how they swarmed on us!" "Ay," growled Thrond.
He put them forthwith into relations with the church, and thus acquired a respect mingled with awe for the smallest child he saw. "Now I must play," thought Thrond, and tried to do so. But what was this? The fiddle had no longer any sound in it. There must be some defect in the strings; he examined, but could find none.
I had to leave the deck, being in the way of the men, and Ecgbert did not see me, as far as I could tell. Thorleif and his men boarded the prize over her bows and went aft, Ecgbert going with them. The two ships drifted apart again, and I found my place by Thrond once more, while the men sat on the gunwale, waiting for the time when their chief should return.
We were far across the Channel, and still heading eastward. "Thrond," I said, "are you after that ship yonder?" "Ay. She will be a Frankish trader going home, and worth overhauling. Maybe there will be no fight, however; but one never knows." Now it was in my mind to ask him what would be done with me, but I did not.
Thrond came on board with the first, and leaped to the steering deck, where he grasped the tiller, paying no heed to me. His eyes were on the lane end. I got out of his way, and stood by the stern post, with my arm round the dragon tail. For I saw nothing else to do but to keep quiet. I did not know rightly whether honour compelled me to stay as a captive still, but I thought it did.
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