In the morning Havelok went to the church and prayed to God to speed him in his undertaking.  Then he came home and found Grim’s three sons just going off fishing.  Their names were Robert the Red, William Wendut, and Hugh Raven.  He told them who he was, how Godard had slain his sisters, and delivered him over to Grim to be drowned, and how Grim had fled with him to England.  Then Havelok asked them to go with him to Denmark, promising to make them rich men.  To this they gladly agreed, and having got ready their ship and victualed it, they set sail with Havelok and his wife for Denmark.  The place of their landing was hard by the castle of a Danish earl named Ubbe, who had been a faithful friend to King Birkabeyn.  Havelok went to Earl Ubbe, with a gold ring for a present, asking leave to buy and sell goods from town to town in that part of the country.  Ubbe, beholding the tall, broad-shouldered, thick-chested man, so strong and cleanly made, thought him more fit for a knight than for a peddler.  He bade Havelok bring his wife and come and eat with him at his table.  So Havelok went to fetch Goldborough, and Robert the Red and William Wendut led her between them till they came to the castle, where Ubbe, with a great company of knights, welcomed them gladly.  Havelok stood a head taller than any of the knights, and when they sat at table Ubbe’s wife ate with him, and Goldborough with Ubbe.  It was a great feast, and after the feast Ubbe sent Havelok and his friends to Bernard Brown, bidding him take care of them till next day.  So Bernard received the guests and gave them a fine supper.

Now in the night there came sixty-one thieves to Bernard’s house.  Each had a drawn sword and a long knife, and they called to Bernard to undo the door.  He started up and armed himself, and told them to go away.  But the thieves defied him, and with a great boulder broke down the door.  Then Havelok, hearing the din, rose up, and seizing the bar of the door stood on the threshold and threw the door wide open, saying, “Come in, I am ready for you!” First came three against him with their swords, but Havelok slew these with the door bar at a single blow; the fourth man’s crown he broke; he smote the fifth upon the shoulders, the sixth athwart the neck, and the seventh on the breast; so they fell dead.  Then the rest drew back and began to fling their swords like darts at Havelok, till they had wounded him in twenty places.  In spite of that, in a little while he had killed a score of the thieves.  Then Hugh Raven, waking up, called Robert and William Wendut.  One seized a staff, each of the others a piece of timber as big as his thigh, and Bernard his axe, and all three ran out to help Havelok.  So well did Havelok and his fellows fight, breaking ribs and arms and shanks, and cracking crowns, that not a thief of all the sixty-one was left alive.  Next morning, when Ubbe rode past and saw the sixty-one dead bodies, and heard what Havelok had done, he sent and brought both him and Goldborough to his own castle, and fetched a leech to tend his wounds, and would not hear of his going away; for, said he, “This man is better than a thousand knights.”