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"Let us go at once on this tide," I said, starting up. "Not so fast now, comrade," laughed Thormod. "Would you come again half starved, as last time, into the lady's presence?" Then I called Cyneward, but when he rose up and came to us, Thormod stared at him, crying: "You here, Raud! I thought you were with Ingvar." "Aye, Thormod, I am here at least Cyneward, who was Raud, is with Wulfric." "Ho!
Then one of our men, who had stood next to me, spoke for me, as he thought. "I saw Wulfric sign Thor's hammer even now. What more does any man want from a Saxon?" Thereat Ingvar scowled, knowing, as I think, what this was. "You claim to be truth teller," he said; "did you sign Thor's hammer?" "I did not," I answered. Then Halfden came to my side. "Let Wulfric go his own way, brother.
But, all the same, it's partly his fault, but we're most to blame. You couldn't have done anything if it hadn't been for us." "How now, bold boy?" asked Sir Wulfric haughtily. "Thy speech is dark, and eke scarce courteous. Unravel me this riddle!" "Oh," said Robert desperately, "of course you don't know it, but you're not real at all.
"Because because there will be the great sacrifice tomorrow, and Wulfric, your friend, is not of our faith." Then Halfden was silent, looking across at me, and all at once I knew that here was a danger greater than any I had yet been through. Fire I had passed through, and water, and now it was like to be trial by steel.
Thereon he gave me a broad silver ring, rune graven, to show as a token to any of his countrymen whom I might meet, for the ring was known. "Do not part with it, Wulfric," he said, as I thanked him; "for it may be of use to you some day, if not on this voyage. Jarl Lodbrok is well known on the high seas, and he gives not rings for naught."
Let Wulfric and Rorik fight out this question and then the life of him who is slain will surely appease the gods." That pleased our crew well, for they had no great love for Rorik, who had taken too much command on him, for a stranger on board. Now, too, Ingvar's brows cleared, for he cared nothing for the life of either of us, so that the gods were satisfied with blood.
However, I told my father thereof, for the remembrance was heavy to me. And he, when he heard it, bit his lip a little, pondering, but at last laughed. "Trouble not yourself about it, son Wulfric," he said; "were I to mind every dream that I have had, I think that I should take no joy in life.
Hubba would have come also, but Ingvar held him back. "Let Wulfric have his say first," he growled; and I thanked him in my mind for his thought. So we went to the inner chamber, where Osritha would sit with her maidens, and Halfden said: "This matter is filling all my thoughts so that I am but a gloomy comrade at the board. Tell me all, and then what is done is done.
"Why run thus into danger, Wulfric my son?" said the king, speaking gently; "better have let me be the only victim." "That you shall not be, my king," I answered; "for if you must die, I will be with you. But I have come to try to ransom you." "There are two words concerning that," said Ingvar in his cold voice. "Maybe I will take no gold for Eadmund." "What shall we give you then?"
'In the name of our Lord the King, and of our good lord and trusty leader Sir Wulfric de Talbot, we summon this castle to surrender on pain of fire and sword and no quarter. Do ye surrender? 'No, bawled Robert, 'of course we don't! Never, Never, NEVER! The man answered back: 'Then your fate be on your own heads. 'Cheer, said Robert in a fierce whisper.
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