"Then I may have somewhat to say of my doings." So I told him all.
"Why then, you must be wedded betimes," he said; "for I must see that wedding, though I would not have Cnut catch me.

The ships are in Colchester river, and but for Egil I had never got there even." Then I heard how he had been southward, and what deeds he had done; and it was Ottar who told me that, for Olaf had nought to say of himself.

But presently when it came to the time when he turned his ships homeward, Olaf took up the story.
"When I was minded to go on from this place, in Carl's water as they call it, even to Jerusalem and the holy places, I had the sign that I looked for--the sign that I should go back to Norway.

I slept, and in my sleep there came to me a man, very noble looking and handsome, and yet terrible, and he stood by me and spoke to me saying, 'Fare back to the land that is thy birthright, for King of Norway thou shalt be for evermore.' And I knew this man for Olaf Tryggvesson my kinsman, and I think that he means that I shall gain all Norway for Christ's faith, and that my sons shall reign after me in the days to come." "It is certain that you shall win Norway," I said, "for so also ran the words of the Senlac witch, 'For Olaf a kingdom and more than a kingdom--a name that shall never die'." "I think men will remember me if I beat Cnut in my own land," he said lightly.

"So I came back as far as the Seine river, and there was Eadward Atheling trying to raise men against Cnut his stepfather.