I will see that no landing is made on these southern shores while you are northward, for if you beat Cnut he will take ship and come to Essex or Kent; or maybe even into the Thames again.

Give me authority to command here until you return, and I think I can be of more use than if I went with you." So that was what was done in the end, and Olaf was named as captain of the ships and of any southern host that he might be able to raise, and Olaf asked that I might stay with him.
That our atheling granted gladly, telling me that it was for no lack of wish on his part to have me at his side, as ever of late, but that I should take a better place with the king my kinsman than among the crowd of thanes who were round Ethelred.

Then he took his own sword from his side and gave it me.
"Farewell therefore for a while, Redwald, my comrade," he said when he went away.

"You have helped me to tide over many heavy hours that would have pressed sorely on me but for your cheerfulness.
When peace comes you shall have your Anglian home again, with more added to its manors for the sake of past days and good service." That was much for the atheling to say, and heartily did I thank him.

Yet I had grown to love Olaf my kinsman better than any other man, and I was glad to be with him, away from the court jealousies and strivings for place.