And several cried: "Let it be, Jarl.

What is one man to Thor and Odin ?" Now I think that Ingvar would have let the matter pass thus, for the word of the host is not lightly to be disregarded.

But Rorik would not suffer it.
"What of the wrath of the gods, Godar ?" he said.

"How will you put that aside ?" Then was a murmur that they must be appeased, but it came not from our crew; and Ingvar stood frowning, but not looking at me for a space, for he was pulled two ways.

As godar he must not pass by the dishonour to the gods, yet as the son of the man whom I had saved, how could he harm me?
And Rorik, seeing this, cried: "I hold that this man should live no longer." "Why, what dishonour has he done the gods ?" said Halfden.