Thereon he gave me a broad silver ring, rune graven, to show as a token to any of his countrymen whom I might meet, for the ring was known.
"Do not part with it, Wulfric," he said, as I thanked him; "for it may be of use to you some day, if not on this voyage.

Jarl Lodbrok is well known on the high seas, and he gives not rings for naught." Now I would not take the falcon with me, but begged the jarl to use her; and I asked him also to train for himself a greyhound that I had bred, and of which he thought highly.
"Why," said he, "I shall have the best hawk and dog in all Thetford town, and Beorn the falconer will have naught to say to me." Thereat we laughed, for Beorn's jealousy was a sport to us when we thought of it, which was seldom enough.
So these two went to Thetford, and in the last week of August I sailed for London, with a fair breeze over the quarter, from our haven..