But he feasted us for two days before he would speak a word with Olaf as to what he had come to ask him, saying that it was enough for him to see the bridge breaker and the taker of Canterbury town, and to do him honour.

For Olaf's fame had gone widely through all England.
Now Godwine would ever talk with me, for I could tell him of Olaf, and also of the long war, and of the Norman court, so that we became great friends.

But he had no liking for Ethelred, which was not wonderful, seeing that Wulfnoth his father had not a good word to say for him.
At last, when Olaf told him plainly of the needs of England and of her king, and of what he feared of the return of Cnut, Earl Wulfnoth answered: "Had you come to ask me to go a-viking with yourself, gladly would I have joined with or followed you.

Godwine my son has yet some things to learn which a Norseman could teach him, and it would have been well.

But Ethelred holds me as a traitor; and while Edric Streone is at his side I will not have aught to do with him.