Yet, if he had warned them, surely the bells had not pealed out thus.
Now I heard the music play from across the water, and I heard the shouts of the people--and all the while the hoofs of Ingvar's horses thundered nearer and nearer.

Then they came over the little rise in the road and were on me with levelled spears.
I got my horse between them and me, across the narrow roadway, and hove up my axe and waited.

But when Ingvar saw who I was, he held up his hand, and his men threw up their spear points and halted, thinking perhaps that I was the king.
"Where is the king ?" shouted Ingvar.
I saw that their horses were done, and not knowing which way the king had gone answered truly.
"I know not.

The road forks, and that is as far as I know." Then Ingvar swore a great oath.
"You know not which way he went ?" "I do not," I said.
"Catch a thrall and ask him," he said to his men.
And those silly folk were yet standing at the corner, maybe thinking us belated wedding guests, and the men took one, dragging him to their chief.

But the man said that he had seen no horsemen pass.