But till the omens have spoken let him be set aside and carefully watched.

In a day or two we will journey to Odin's temple and there consult the auguries." Three days passed, during which Edmund was well fed and treated.

At the end of that time he was ordered to accompany the jarl on a journey.

Two days' travelling brought them to a temple of Odin.

It was a rough structure of unhewn stones situated in a wood.