"Mayhap the king remembers the name thus!" "Aye," answered Eadmund, "that is a well-known and honoured name, and I think that Ragnar's son has a share in his courage.

But your face also seems known to me, and it was not of the great Ragnar that I thought.

Have we met in years past ?" Then Lodbrok said that he had been in London at a time when Offa the King was there, and it was long years ago, but that the very day might be remembered by reason of a great wedding that he had been to see out of curiosity, knowing little of Saxon customs.

And he named the people who were married in the presence of Offa and many nobles.
Then Eadmund laughed a little.
"Now it all comes into my mind," he said; "you are the leader of those strangers who must needs come into the church in helm and mail, with axe and shield hung on shoulders.

Moreover, for that reason, when men bade you depart and you went not, they even let you bide.