Ill should I have thought of you had you not done so.

But I have this plan for you.

You shall go ashore with the first, and speak to the Saxons to give us ransom, if they have aught, or if any man is foolish enough to bide in the place when we come.

Then, if you will, you shall leave us and make your way homeward, there to give messages to my father and yours, and to look for my coming to Reedham shortly.

There will I winter with you, and we will sail to Jutland in the spring." Then he looked long at me, and put his arm round my shoulder.
"Truly I shall miss you, Wulfric, my brother, yet it is but for a short time." Now I knew not how to thank him, for this plan was all that I could wish.