And I will tell you one thing which she fears more than aught." There she stayed her words and looked at me somewhat doubtfully.

I suppose that what she saw in my face told her that she might go on, for she did so.
"Presently Hakon must needs find a protector for her, if her own lands are to be won back for her.

She fears who that may be." Then she rose up and left me with some new matter for thought, not altogether unpleasant.

And thereafter, for the few days that were left of the voyage, I did my best to be the same in all companionship to our charge as I had been in the days on the island.
Hakon made up his mind to sail north to Thrandheim {2}, where men loved his father, and where the strength of Norway lay.

With the Thrandheimers behind him there would be every hope of winning in the end, if there must needs be some fighting here and there before the land was quiet.