So he went back contented to try no more, and I put in here on my way homeward." Then I said: "Do you blame me for submitting to Cnut ?" "You could do nought else," he answered.

"And from all I hear he is likely to be a good king.

Mind you that vision we saw on the shore in Normandy ?" "It has come to pass as you read it," I answered.
Then he said: "Yet more is to come to pass of that vision.

Cnut will reign and will pass when his time comes, and with him will pass his kingdoms.
There will be none of his line who shall keep them {16}." "After him Eadward, therefore, or Alfred, should they live," I said, musing.

For the words of dying Ethelred came back to me--his foretelling of the strong hand followed by the wise.
"That will be seen," answered Olaf.