But I will tell no more of that business, save that Halfden and Thormod praised me, saying that I had done well.

And after that the crew asked that I should lead the men amidships, for their head man had been slain, and Halfden was on the fore deck, and Thormod aft.

So my boyish dreams were like to come to pass, for I was thus a viking indeed.

Yet I had little pride therein.
Thence we raided ever eastward and westward along that shore, and I grew to love Halfden well, strange as were his wild ways to me.

For he was in all things most generous; nor was he cruel, but would hold back the more savage of the men when he could--though, indeed, that was seldom--when they were mad with fighting.
So the weeks went on, until at last one day as we left a haven where we had bided for a while, taking ransom from the town that we might leave it in peace, we spied a sail far off coming from eastward, and Thormod would have us bear up for her, to see what she might be.