But I forgot all these things as I looked into his pleasant weatherbeaten face, and saw the kindly look in the gray eyes that I knew would flash most terribly in fight.

He was twenty-five years old, as I thought; but therein I was wrong, for he was just my own age, though looking so much older.
"I am Olaf Haraldsson--Olaf Digri, the Thick, as men call me," he said.

"Some call me king, though I rule but over a few ships, as a sea king.

Which of you thanes is Eadmund the Atheling ?" Then Eadmund rose up from his place, and went towards the king.

His seat had been in shadow, else there had been no need to ask which was he.
"I have heard of you, King Olaf," he said, "for your deeds are sung in our land already.