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For me Denmark seems to lie within the four square of the ancient stones; but if you will do my bidding, you and Havelok shall see her again, though how I cannot tell." Then I could hardly speak for trouble, but Withelm said softly, "As we have been wont to do, father, so it shall be." "Well shall my word be kept, therefore," Grim said, smiling on us. "Listen, therefore.
As for Havelok, he had waked once, and had well eaten, and now was sleeping again. Then said Withelm, "When will the sacrifice to Aegir and Ran for luck on the swan's path be?" "Scant time have we for that," my father said, "for tide will not wait." "Then," said the boy, "it were well to take the stone altar with us, and make sacrifice on board. I have heard that Aegir is wrathful and strong."
"Go and ask him," answered Hodulf, biting his lips; "go and hear more lies. Who can know the son of Gunnar when he sees him?" "That is answered out of your own mouth," said the chief. "Is Sigurd a fool that he should hail the first man who asks him to do so?" And from beside me Withelm answered also, "Maybe it is a pity that Griffin of Wales was slain last night in trying to kill Havelok.
You cannot do without Raven; for it is ill to miss any chance of the sea just now. Nor can Withelm go, for he knows all in the place, and who is most in want. It will not do to be without house steward. So we two will go. Never have I been to Lincoln yet, and Radbard knows the place well."
It was in sheer honesty and singleness of heart that he did so, and I had never skill enough to show him the right. But Withelm, who has long been a priest of the faith, and shall surely be our bishop ere long, had more to do with his conversion than any other. Yet it did not come until the days when Paulinus came from York and preached with the fire of the missionary to us all.
Hodulf sat on his place on the dais, and there were thirty-one others with him, sitting on the benches that were set along the walls. Withelm counted them. Then the door was closed, and the man with whom I had spoken set his back against it, but it was not barred; and I went forward to the steps of the high place, and stood before Hodulf. "Well, what now?" he said, seeing that I was a stranger.
After a long silence she said, "Strange things and good come into the mind of a child, and one may learn what his fate shall be in the days to come. I am sure from this that Withelm will be a priest."
But Withelm was there, for Eglaf had seen him with me not an hour ago, and had bidden him come, as a stranger from far off. There were a few other strangers there also, as one might suppose, for the king's hall must be open at these times. Now I looked on all this, and it pleased me; and then I began to hear the talk of those at the high table, and that was pleasant also.
So Withelm went his way to the old priest with a light heart, and I to the captain. "Well," said Eglaf, "this is about what I expected when your brother came. Good it has been to have you here; and I think that I shall see you as a housecarl for good yet. When do you go?" "The first time that I do not turn up on guard I am gone, not till then." "Come and drink a farewell cup first."
"Can you mind that he took me also?" I shook my head, and longed for Withelm. Surely I would send for him, or for Arngeir, if this went on. Arngeir for choice, for I could tell him what I thought; and that would only puzzle Withelm, who knew less than I. "We will ask Arngeir some day," I said; "he can remember."
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