He means to fall on us, else had he spoken to you elsewhere first, Thane.

It seems to me that here we shall die." He looked round on his fellows, and they nodded, and one set his helm more firmly on his head, and another tightened his belt, and one or two signed the cross on their broad chests, but not one paled, though they knew there was small hope for them if Erpwald chose to storm the house.

The court was light as day with the flames of the stack by this time.
"What think you of this, Owen," my father said.
"That it is likely that we must seal our faith with our blood, brother," he answered.

"Yet I think that there is more in this than heathenism, in some way." "There is an old feud of no account," said my father, "but I would not think hardly of Erpwald.

After all, he was Woden's priest, and is wroth, as I myself might have been.