As soon should our kitchen turnspit dog fly the greyhound that I had given Lodbrok, as such a ship as ours from this swift viking's craft.
But her beauty was not that which drew the eyes of my men.

Little they thought of wonder or pleasure in gazing on the ship herself.
All her decks were crowded with scarlet-cloaked men, and the sunlight which made the ship so bright flashed also from helm and spear and mail coat from stem to stern.

And at that sight every tale of viking cruelty they had heard came into their minds, and they were overcome with terror, so that I thought that several would have cast themselves into the sea, away from the terrible ship, choosing rather death by water than by the sword.

But I saw some half dozen whose faces set hard with other thoughts than these, and they turned to seek their weapons from under the fore deck.
Then I spoke to them, for it was time; and I would have neither fear nor defiance shown, for I knew that we should be boarded.
"Yonder ship belongs, as I think, to the people of our guest, Lodbrok the Dane.

So it seems to me that they will gladly hear news of him from us, as he is a great man in Denmark.