So I shook my head, thanking the man, and saying that it was not so.
Now I think that the earl had planned this in order to make one of us speak at the last, and for a moment I thought that Beorn was about to speak, but he forbore.

Then Ulfkytel sighed heavily and turned away, speaking in a low voice to the thanes with him, and they seemed to agree with his words.
At length he turned to us and spoke gravely: "It is, as I said, too hard for me.

The Lord shall judge.

Even as Lodbrok came shall you two go, at the mercy of wind and wave and of Him who rules them.

You shall be put into Lodbrok's boat this night, and set adrift to take what may come.