Now the king is not a great and strong man, as men think who have not seen him, but is tall and overgrown for his years, looking eighteen or twenty, though he is younger.

He will be a powerful man some day, but his mail hangs loosely on him now.

He is like an eagle in face, for his nose is high and bent, and his eyes are clear and piercing.

Quiet and very pleasant is he in his way, and being so young also, some think they can do as they will with him.

But that they try not twice.
"This is what Streone thought, for he deemed that he should be the king's master if he set him on the throne.