human
The Vikings don't seem to care a straw for anything I've said, groaned Ned.
gpt
I don't suppose they take scalps, but they'll kill women and children as if they were so many Sioux Indians. I suppose the English would be just as cruel, if they had a chance. I wish the world were civilised.
human
Come on, ye wolves of Norway, roared the valiant priest, at his side.
gpt
But I bid ye hold your hands. By the order of Harold the King and Tostig the Earl! Ye will have to slay us four ere ye break in to murder the people of the earl.
human
I know thee not, he said.
gpt
Thou art an outlander and a saga man, but I know thy companions. That youth is a son of my friend Vebba, of Nordensfiord. With him is Vebba's house-carle. The boy with a strange tongue I know to be a lithsman of Tostig the Earl. Were we to slay him, we were but lost men. The orders are hard, but I will obey them, only that we will make prize of all casks of ale and of whatever is fit to eat. Blood we will not shed.
human
To that we all give assent, shouted a man's voice from within the stockade.
gpt
Upon that pledge we will open the gate. We belong to Tostig the Earl, and therefore we did not flee at his coming.
human
We will keep faith with you, responded the Viking leader.
gpt
Ned, the son of Webb, hath the right in this matter. He doeth well to protect the people of his earl. I approve him. Open the gate!