"Maybe I will take no gold for Eadmund." "What shall we give you then ?" I asked, looking earnestly at him.
"You heard what I said this morning before the battle.

I have no other terms but those.

And I think they are light--as from the son of Lodbrok whom this king's servant slew." Now Eadmund spoke, saying to Ingvar: "Let me hear what are your terms for my freedom.

In the slaying of Lodbrok my friend I had no part." "That is easily said," Ingvar answered, frowning.

"I have my own thoughts on that--else had I not been here.