It
was good to see them thus in that place, and happy they seemed together.
Goldberga called me when I came near, and I sat down beside them as she
bade me.
"Here we have been talking of what we shall do now, for it seems that to
both of us are many things to hand," she said. "Good it would be if we
could set them aside; but we were born to them, and we cannot let them
be. And, most of all, here in this place we may not forget the duty that
Grim would remind us of. Havelok must go to Denmark and win back his
kingdom from Hodulf first of all."
"We have thought that East Anglia was to be won first from Alsi," I said.
"So says Havelok; but I do not think so. For, indeed, I am but the wife,
and the things of the husband come first of all. Now, this is what I
would say. Sail to Denmark before Hodulf knows what is coming, and there
will be less trouble."
"I am slow at seeing things," said Havelok; "but the same might be said
of your kingdom."
"Alsi is ready, and Hodulf is not," she answered, laughing; "any one can
see that.
"Is it not so, brother?"
So it was; and I thought that she was right.
"Let us ask the brothers," I said, "for here are many things to be
thought of; and, first of all, where to get men."
That was the greatest trouble to our minds, but none at all to hers.
"Get them in Denmark," she said, when we were all together in the great
room of the house that evening.
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