Were you not taken likewise ?" So when he heard of all that had brought me here, he praised Egil highly.
"He is a Norseman, and no Dane, by birth," he said.

"One may be proud that he is so.

I would that he were my man." Then was my turn, and I wondered how Olaf had left London, for the Thames was full of Danish ships, as I had heard.
"Aye, so it is yet," he told me.

"The Danes cannot take the city, try what they will, though they dug a great ditch round the Southwark fort, and took ships through it above the bridge, and so kept us shut up close enough.

But walls and forts and citizens are too much for them.