19/24 There they will lay the king in mound as becomes a chief of our land." "And if not ?" "We might in any case make the Danish shore." "Where a Norse chief will find no honour. Better that he were sunk in the sea here. I would that this might be done, if we have any doubt as to reaching a land where your folk were known." "It may be done, Lady Gerda," I answered, while into my mind came the words which the old chief seemed to have spoken to me in the night. "It may be the best thing in the end. |