"He comes here every year, and I suppose that the goods I have had from him at times have been plunder.

I would that you had ended him last night.

Now he has got away in peace, and is out of my reach, maybe, by this time.

Well, how went it ?" Then I told him the end of the tale, wondering how it was that Thorgils had let him go.

I asked the prince if he could explain that for me.
"Not altogether," he said.