Presently, however, he said: "What shall you do now--if one may ask ?" "I know not.

When I sailed from Wareham, I thought to have seen more sea service with Alfred your king.

But now his men are going home, and in a day or two, at this rate, there will be none left to man the ships." "We can call them up again when need is," he answered.
"They should not go home till the king sends them," I said.

"This is not the way in which Harald Fairhair made himself master of Norway.

Once his men are called out they know that they must bide with him till he gives them rest and sends them home with rewards.
It is his saying that one sets not down the hammer till the nail is driven home, and clinched moreover." "That is where the Danes are our masters," the Saxon said, very gravely.