Tell me how you slew Lodbrok, and why." Then came a voice, so hollow that I should not have known it for the lusty falconer's of past days: "Aye; justice is on me, and I am glad.

I will tell you, but first say that you forgive me." Then I could not but tell this poor creature that for all the harm he had done me I would surely forgive him; but that the deed of murder was not for me to forgive.
"Pray, therefore, that for it I may be forgiven hereafter," he said, and that I promised him.
Then he spoke faintly, so that Hubba bade Raud give him strong drink, and that brought his strength back a little.
"I took your arrows at Thetford, and I followed you to Reedham.
There I dogged you, day by day, in the woods--five days I went through the woods as you hunted, and then you twain were far apart, and my chance had come.

Lodbrok reined up to listen, and I marked where he would pass when he went back, hearing your horn.

Then I shot, and the arrow went true; but I drew sword, being mad, and made more sure.

That is all.