You shall turn viking and go on this raid with us.

Glad shall we be of your axe play and seamanship." I turned to him and put my hand into his.
"I will go with you, Halfden," I said, for it seemed at that time that I had naught else left for me to do.
And ever since I was a child, listening to the songs of the gleemen, had I thought that some day I, too, would make a name for myself on the seas, as my forefathers had made theirs, so that my deeds should be sung also.

Yet that longing had cooled of late, as the flying people from Mercia had found their way now and then to us with tales of Danish cruelties.
"That is well said," he answered, pleased enough.

"Where shall we go ?" Then I had yet thought enough left me to say that against our Saxon kin I would not lift axe.

And so came to me the first knowledge that what wiser men than I thought was true--that the old seven kingdoms were but names, and that the Saxon and Anglian men of England were truly but one, and should strive for that oneness, thinking no more of bygone strifes for headship.
"Why, that is fair enough, so you have no grudge to pay off," he said; "but I will help you to settle any, if you have them." "I have no grudge against any man," I answered, truly enough.
"Then if we raid on English shores, you shall keep ship, as someone must; and so all will be satisfied," he answered; "but we will go first to the Frankish shores, for it is all one to me." So that pleased me as well as anything would at that time; whereupon we went to Thormod, and he was very willing that I should take part and share with them.