I sat on the deck here alone at that time, clad thus for the last rites, and saw the warriors swarm out of a little valley on my folk, and rose up to go to them with my arms.

Then came Arnkel on board in haste, and bade me shelter in the chamber.

The ship was to be set afloat lest the fight should go against us.

But I would not go." There she stopped, and a look of remembered terror crossed her face.
"He had two men with him; and all the rest--our courtmen and the freemen who loved me, as I think--were running to the fight.

So they made no more ado, but carried me thither, bound me that I might not cry out, and then set up the timbers hastily and fastened them.