There is no need for me to tell how he greeted me, or how I met him.
Then when those greetings were over I heard all that had been going on, and my loss had made turmoil enough.

My men had brought back the news, having missed me very shortly, but it was long before they found traces of me.

The first thing that they saw was my hawk, as I expected, and after that the bodies of the slain.

As I was not with them, they judged that I had escaped in some way, but they lost the track of the feet in the woodlands, and so rode back to Owen in all haste.
Then was a great gathering of men for the hunting of the outlaws, for it would take a small army to search the wild hills and woodlands of the Quantocks to any effect.

The whole countryside turned out gladly, and the Watchet Norsemen helped also.
In the end, on the next day they penned the outlaws into some combe, and took most of them, and then all was told by them, so far as they knew it.