bear's ears, of his paternity. Bern had a son, whose name was Siward.
According to A, Siward is removed by three generations more from his
bear-ancestor, the line of descent being Ursus (the bear), Spratlingus,
Ulsius (should be Ulfius), Beorn (with the cognomen Beresun), Siward.

According to A, where the account is a little more detailed than in B,
Siward, who was given the cognomen Diere (large), was a brave and
powerful man, who, disdaining the succession to his father's earldom in
Denmark, set sail with one vessel and fifty chosen companions, and
arrived at the Orkney Islands. On one of the islands was a dragon that
had done much damage by killing men and cattle. To show his strength and
bravery, Siward entered into a combat with the dragon and drove it from
the island. Thence he set sail for Northumberland, and there, he heard,
there was another dragon. During the search for this dragon, he met an
old man sitting on a hill. He inquired of the man as to the whereabouts
of the dragon. But the man, calling him by name, told him that he sought
the dragon in vain, and directed him to continue his journey and proceed
till he came to a river called Thames, on whose bank was situated a city
by the name of London. "And there," he said, "you will find the king of
that region, who will enlist you in his service and in a short time
bestow land upon you." As a token of the trustworthiness of his
prediction, the old man drew from the folds of his garment a banner,
called Ravenlandeye, and presented it to Siward.

Siward accepted the banner and proceeded to London, where he was
summoned by King Edward to meet him at Westminster. Siward obeyed the
summons and was enlisted in the service of the king, who promised him
the first position of honor to become vacant in the kingdom. On this
visit to the king, he slew Tosti in order to avenge an imagined insult
and demanded and received Tosti's earldom of Huntingdon, which had thus