Phelim and Gerda won the folk with ways and words of love, and before two years had passed all were working to frame a church here with much pride in the building, giving time and labour for naught but the honour of the faith.
Hakon came to the consecrating of that church, and with him were Bertric and Dalfin, and then those good friends of ours stood sponsors for us at the first christenings that were therein.
Thereafter Bertric went home to England, and we have seen him no more.

Only we know that he is high in honour with his king, and happily wedded in his Dorset home.

Dalfin is still in Norway, and high in honour with Hakon, and here he will bide, being wedded, and holding himself to be a very Norseman.

There might be worse than he, in all truth.

And Asbiorn is with Hakon, as the head of his courtmen, silent and ready, and well liked by all.