And he would have no delay, but gave me good Saxon arms and helm, and a chain-mail byrnie {x} of the best, such as Saxon or Dane alike would wear, for he had many such, gathered from the different lands he had raided with his father and brothers.
"Any man, seeing you in Danish arms and helm," he said, "might well mistrust you.

So you must needs take these, for you have far to go." Then, too, he pressed on me a heavy leathern bag, for he said truly enough that I should need gold withal to buy a horse.

And this I took willingly, saying that it should be as a loan till he came to Reedham.
"Nay," quoth he, "this is your share of booty; we surely gained enough on yonder shores to bring you this much." Then I was silent, for I was ashamed of those gains, and I did not look into the bag, but bestowed it inside my mail shirt, for I would not offend him.

Then, when I was armed and ready, he gave me many messages for his father, and thanks to mine.

A ring, too, he gave me for a sure token of his friendship to me; and so as the ship crept, under oars only, up Bosham haven, we talked of the hunting we would have together, when the leaves were fallen in our forests; and that was pleasant to look forward to.
Now began frightened men to run to and fro on the haven's banks, and then suddenly came the ringing of a bell from the low tower of the church, and the Danes began to look to their arms, stringing bows, and bringing up the pebble ballast for sling stones, in case the landing should be resisted.
But when we came to a little wharf, the other ship being perhaps a mile astern of us, there was no man.