And I would have had you take back the news that I was lost to my own home." My father stood and watched the tide, and presently I joined him, for I would not hinder the Dane from his meal by watching him.

I looked at the beautiful boat astern, tossing lightly on the wave crests, and saw that she would surely be lost over the bar; so I asked my father now, as I had meant before, if we might not try to get her on board.
For answer he turned to Lodbrok.
"Set you much store by your boat, Jarl ?" he asked him.
"The boat is yours, Thane, or Wulfric's, by all right of salvage.
But I would not have her lost, for my sons made her for me this last winter, carving her, as you see, with their own hands.

Gladly would I see her safe if it might be." "Then we will try to get her," answered my father; "for there are one or two things that my children have made for me, and I would not lose them for the sake of a little trouble.

And, moreover, I think your sons have made you the best boat that ever floated!" "Else had I not been here!" answered the Dane.

"They are good shipwrights." Then Kenulf and the men set to work, and it was no easy matter to come by the boat; but it was done at last, and glad was I to see her safely lashed on deck.