The Danish galleys paused at the entrance.

In so wild a storm they would have had difficulty in keeping their boats straight, while the great galley with her sails and oars would be able to maneuver freely, and could strike and run them down one by one.
"What is that pile of buildings on the rising knoll of ground some three miles away ?" Edmund asked.
"It is Bamborough Castle," Egbert replied, "a Roman stronghold of immense strength." "Let us run up thither," Edmund said.

"If, as is likely enough, it is unoccupied, we will land there and take possession.

Are the walls complete ?" "Assuredly they are," Egbert said.

"They are of marvellous strength, such as we cannot build in our days.