Only one thing more I would ask, and that was if Matelgar bided in his own or my hall.

The man told me that he kept in his own place.
"Now," said I, "I had a mind to leave you bound here for the wolves, but you shall take a message to your master." On that the man swore to do my bidding, or, if I would, to follow me.
"Save your oaths," I said.

"I have heard a many today, and I hold them as nothing.

Take these cast rags of mine, and bear them back to your master.

Give them to him, and then say to him whatsoever you will-- either that you have slain me and these are the tokens, but that Gurth was by me slain, and you must leave him and his arms here because of the wolves which you feared; or else you can tell him the truth, as it has happened, and see what he does to you.