I should have to seek him there.
"How far is it to the Danes' town, Father Govan ?" I asked.

"Yonder goes my friend's ship." "Half a day's ride, my son, and with peril for you all the way.

Our poor folk would take you for a Dane in those arms, and you have no horse.

Needs must that you seek Howel, and he will give you a guard willingly." Then he turned toward a great rock that lay on the beach, as if it had fallen from the cliffs that towered above us.
"Here is the bell that you heard last night," he said.
He took a rounded stone that lay on the rock and struck it, and I knew that the clear bell note that it gave out was indeed that which had been my saving.
"Once I had a bell in the cote on the roof yonder," he said, "but the Danes caught sight of it when they first passed this way, and took it from me.

Then as I sorrowed that the lonely shepherds and fishers might no more hear its call, I seemed to see a vision of an angel who bade me see what had been sent me instead.