Then Thorkel came, and together we went to Colchester, and thence he bade me go to Bures in peace and take my old place, for he said that Cnut and Emma the queen would have me honoured in all that I would, even did he himself not wish to keep me as his own friend.
Then said I: "What of Geirmund, your own man, who had Bures ?" Egil laughed.
"Geirmund is the man over whom I fell at your feet at Leavenheath fight.

You yourself have made an end of him.

I wonder that you knew it not." So I went back to Bures, and there is no need to say how my poor folk rejoiced.

But Ailwin was not there, nor had Gunnhild been seen.

The young priest was there yet, and well loved.
Then I said to myself: "Let things bide for a while.