So I fled, and then Tregoz had me outlawed, with a price on my head, so that, being well known, I had to take to Exmoor and herd with others in the same case.

I knew that no weregild, as the Saxon calls it, would be enough to save me from the Cornishman.
"There I was the one who could sell the stolen goods across the water, being held in good repute there, and I traded with the Norse strangers who ferried me across.

So it was that when Owen came I was in Watchet, and there Tregoz saw me and laid hands on me.

Then he needed men to carry out that which he would do, and he had me forth and spoke to me, saying that if I would manage the Quantock outlaws for him he would forgive me and have me inlawed again.

I was to have been hanged that day, Thane, and so you will see that I had no choice.