Make his ship his living, and the thing is done." "It seems to me," the thane said, "that this can be done.

I shall tell the king your words." "As you will," I answered; "they are plain enough.

I would say also that Harald our king has about him paid warriors whose living is to serve him, and more who hold lands on condition that they bear arms for him at any time." Now Harek had listened to all this, and could tell the thane more of Harald's ordering of things than I; so he took up the talk for a time, and presently asked about the war and its beginning.
"Faith," answered the Saxon, with a grim smile, "I cannot tell when the war began, for that was when the first Danes came to the English shores.

But if you mean the trouble that is on hand now, it is easily told.

Ten years has this host been in England--coming first with Ingvar and Halfden and Hubba, the three sons of Lodbrok.
Ingvar has gone away, and Guthrum takes his place.