He has got to win for himself the name of a great warrior before a jarl's daughter of proper spirit would so much as think of him.

When he has the spoils of France to lay at her feet it will be time enough." Sweyn made no reply, but Edmund saw that he was far from pleased at his father's words, and a look of surly determination on his face showed the young Saxon that he would go his own way in the matter if it lay in his power.
After ten days' travelling the party arrived at the rendezvous.

Here drawn up on the shore were a vast number of galleys of all sizes, for the greater part of those who had assembled had journeyed by sea.

Great numbers of huts of boughs and many tents constructed of sails had been erected.

Edmund and the other slaves, these being either Saxon or Franks captured in war, soon erected bowers for the jarl and his family.
Edmund had been looking forward to the meeting with much anxiety, for he had judged that some mode of escape might there open to him.