Tell us , ' said Una . ` Wait . Let me hear all first . ' So Dan read to the poem 's very end . ` Good , ' said the knight . ` That is Othere 's tale -- even as I have heard the men in the Dane ships sing it . Not in those same valiant words , but something like to them . ' ` Have you ever explored North ? ' Dan shut the book . ` Nay . My venture was South . Farther South than any man has fared , Hugh and I went down with Witta and his heathen . ' He jerked the tall sword forward , and leaned on it with both hands ; but his eyes looked long past them . ' I thought you always lived here , ' said Una , timidly . ` Yes ; while my Lady Ælueva lived . But she died . She died . Then , my eldest son being a man , I asked De Aquila 's leave that he should hold the Manor while I went on some journey or pilgrimage -- to forget . De Aquila , whom the Second William had made Warden of Pevensey in Earl Mortain 's place , was very old then , but still he rode his tall , roan horses , and in the saddle he looked like a little white falcon . When Hugh , at Dallington , over yonder , heard what I did , he sent for my second son , whom being unmarried he had ever looked upon as his own child , and , by De Aquila 's leave , gave him the Manor of Dallington to hold till he should return .
Then XXXXX came with me . '
Aquila Dallington Dane Hugh Othere Una Witta first roan second