As for the other, I do not know rightly what it means.

I see your people sign themselves crosswise, and I cannot tell why, unless it is as we hallow a feast by signing it with Thor's hammer." "It is more than that," Alfred said, motioning to Sigehelm to say nothing, for he was going to speak.

"First you must know what it means, and then say if you will be signed therewith." Then he said to Sigehelm: "Here is one who will listen to good words, not already set against them, as some Danes are, by reason of ill report and the lives of bad Christians.

Have no fear of telling him what you will." Now, if I were to serve King Alfred, it seemed to me to be only reasonable that I should know the beliefs of those with whom I had to do.

Then I minded me of Neot, and his way of asking about my gods, as if the belief of every man was of interest to him.
"Here is a deep matter to be talked of, King Alfred," I said.