That and a billhook stuck in his belt were his only weapons.
"I am Spray the smith," he said, in a low voice.

"The earl is ready, and the thane also.

The knaves are all drunken with our ale, and we may fall on them at once." "Have they no watch kept ?" asked Olaf wondering.
"None, master." "Are there Danes with them ?" "Aye; half are Danes.

But I met one of them last night and spoke to him peacefully, being stronger than he, and I said that vikings had come to Pevensea, and that the earl was minding them.

So they fear no one." Then came a herdsman's call from the woods beyond the village, and the smith said: "That is the thane.