human
I have to learn somewhat from the scald,
gpt
Wizardry, my king?
human
Nay, but song, he answered.
gpt
Now I see not why I should not tell you who put the thought into my mind; but I am going, as you did, to spy out the Danish camp. And I will go as a gleeman, and be welcome enough as a Saxon who has enough love of Danes to learn some northern sagas for them!
human
My king, I cried,
gpt
Go to, cousin; are you to have all the glory? If you went, why not I? Maybe I too may find a chance of helping some fair maiden on the way back.
human
And maybe the one man in England who can do any good by going, therefore, he answered.
gpt
And neither you nor I would ask any man to do for us what we durst not do ourselves.
human
You will be known, my king,
gpt
Look at those, he said,