human
I should like to see the first of them get ashore,
gpt
Thou art all too late for that, replied the good missionary.
human
Our ship came right along, with nothing else to do, but Hardrada's men have been working havoc everywhere. There hath been hard fighting in the Scotch islands, that's the Orkneys and Shetland, and a good many Scots are with him now. Didst thou know he had ships and men from Iceland, where the fire mountain is?
gpt
No, said Ned.
human
That's a long way off.
gpt
So it is, continued Father Brian,