We have held him as dead for many a long day." But Ingvar looked at Beorn fixedly, and the man shrank away from his gaze.
"How did he die, is what I would know ?" he said sternly.
"Let the man to whom Halfden and Lodbrok gave these gifts tell us presently.

We have enough ill news for the time.

Surely we knew that the jarl was dead, and it is ours but to learn how;" said Hubba.
"How know you that these men slew not both ?" "Jarl Ingvar," I said; "I will tell you all you will, but I would do so in some less hurried way than this.

For I have much to tell." "Take the men home, brother," said Hubba; "then we can talk." "Bind the men," said Ingvar again.
"Nay, brother, not the man who wears those rings," said Hubba quickly.
"Maybe, and it is likely, that they are ill come by, and he will make up some lie about them," answered Ingvar.
"It will be easily seen if he does," answered his brother; "wait till you know." Ingvar reined his horse round and rode away without another word.
Then Hubba bade the man Raud and his brother, a tall man who had come with the Jarl Ingvar, take charge of us until word should come from him, and then rode after Ingvar with the rest of the folk.
"Come into the house," said Raud to me.

"I fear you have ill news enough, though only what we have expected." So we went inside, and I sat in my old place beside the fire.