Now it had been better for thee to have been in the wood to-day to order the women and the swains according to thine ancient wisdom than to egg on my young warriors to fare unwarily.

Here will I abide Thiodolf." Then Thorbiorn reddened and was wroth; but Arinbiorn spake: "What is this to-do?
Let the War-duke rule as is but right: but I am now become a man of Thiodolf's company; and he bade me haste on before to help all I might.

Do thou as thou wilt, Otter: for Thiodolf shall be here in an hour's space, and if much diking shall be done in an hour, yet little slaying, forsooth, shall be done, and that especially if the foe is all armed and slayeth women and children.

Yea if the Bearing women be all slain, yet shall not Tyr make us new ones out of the stones of the waste to wed with the Galtings and the fish-eating Houses ?--this is easy to be done forsooth.

Yea, easier than fighting the Romans and overcoming them!" And he was very wrath, and turned away; and again there was a murmur and a hum about him.