What he may be in a few years' time I know not.
With him it will be as with myself.

I was given a ship when I was twelve years old, and thereafter all that my men did goes to my credit in the mouths of the scalds.

Yet my men and I know well that Rani, my foster father, whom you will soon know, was the real captain and leader for the first three or four years." Then said Eadmund: "Cnut is of no account." Olaf laughed a little, and answered: "Cnut's own arm may be of little strength, but his name is on the lips of every Dane.

There are three chiefs who will hold the kingdom in his name, and they are the men whom you must meet: Thorkel the High, his foster father; Ulf Sprakalegsson the jarl, his brother-in-law; and Eirik the jarl, whose brother Homing holds London even now.

Good men and loyal they are, and what they do Cnut does." "I have three chiefs in my mind who can match these," said our atheling.