The king offered Lodbrok lands if he would bide with us and be his man, and these he refused, gently enough, saying that he had broad lands of his own, and that he would not turn Christian, as the king wished, for the sake of gain.

He would only leave the worship of his own gods for better reasons.

Now Beorn covets those lands, and has hoped to gain them.

Nor does he yet know that Lodbrok will not take them." Then I began to see that this matter was deeper than I had thought, and told my father of the first meeting of Lodbrok and Beorn.

But I said that the falconer had seemed very friendly of late.
"Aye, too friendly," said my father; "it is but a little while since he held aloof from him, and now he is ever close to Lodbrok in field and forest.