We took off the dragon heads, and when it was quite dark rowed down after them, and so caught them up at Greenwich.

Then we slipped through the fleet easily, for it was mostly of cargo ships full of men, and no one paid any heed to us, as might be supposed.

So by daylight we led the fleet, or nearly, and when the next night came we stood away from it, going across Channel.

Then I came here to see if Wulfnoth or Godwine would cruise with me on some other shore, as I promised." Then I asked him what I had better do, for with the sight of his face came the longing to be free again.
"Come with me," he said.

"I am going to win ransom from a town or two against the time when I shall need gold wherewith to win men to me in Norway." I think that I should have done this in the end, though I did not like to leave England without striking one more blow for Eadmund, and I cannot deny that I thought that Uldra would blame me if I did leave our land when she needed every sword that would strike for her.