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There he finds Alsi in an evil mood, and in the hall the people are talking fast, and there is no Berthun to receive him. So, as he sits at the high table and breaks his fast beside the king, he asks what all the wonderment may be. And Alsi tells him, speaking in Welsh. "East Anglia is mine," he says, "for I have rid myself of the girl." Griffin sets his hand on his dagger.
"That is not altogether courteous to either Goldberga or myself," he said, as if he would think the words a jest, seeing that he was half Welsh. "Give me time, I pray you, to think of this, as I have asked, and you shall go back with your answer." There was no help for it, and we had to leave the hall in order that Alsi might say what he had to say to his thanes.
Now it was plain to David that all was pulling the same way, for surely Alsi wrought, unknowing, for the fulfilling of the dream; and all seemed to prove that Havelok was the son of the Danish king, and that he would win back his kingdom.
There had been no straggling from that array, and no break had been made in its lines. Alsi had lost more than we, for his men had beaten against that steel wall in vain, and the arms of the Northman are better than those of any other nation.
And sorely he grieved at my father's death, and at the trouble that was on us. The famine had not been so sore in the south, and pestilence had not been at all. As for himself, he had been courtman, as we call the housecarls, at first, and so had risen to be chamberlain to the king, and now to the princess, and had been with her everywhere that Alsi had sent her since her father died.
"Then they do not refuse," said Arngeir quietly, "nor did I think that they would do so. It only remains therefore, that you, King Alsi, should do your part. Then can the queen speak to the Witan, even as she said, concerning her husband." Now it must have been clear to the king that nothing short of a plain answer would be taken, and he sat and thought for a while.
"So," said Alsi, "you would choose first, and ask me afterwards, forsooth! That is not the way that things are to be between us. It is for me to choose, and that according to the oath which I took when your father made me guardian of you and his realm." "Yet," said Goldberga very gently, "I think that my father would not have meant that I should be the only one not to be asked."
Then Berthun came and beckoned to me, for I must fetch Eglaf the captain at once, as the king had need of him, in haste. Then Eglaf hurried to the hall; and after a word or two with Alsi, the horns were blown outside the hall door to call every man of the guard to the place. And when they came, we were all set round the wall as if guarding all that were in it.
Not until you are married will you take the kingdom at all." "Then," said the princess, growing pale, "I will speak to the Witan myself, and learn their will." "The Witan has broken up," answered Alsi, "and the good thanes are miles on their way homewards by this time. You are too late." "I will call them up again." "Certainly that is, if I let my men run hither and thither to fetch them.
At that Goldberga grew pale and red by turns, so that David, quick to read the thoughts of those who came to him for help, asked if she had seen anyone who she thought must be meant, not at all knowing that she must needs say that this was Curan. Not at all willingly did she tell him this; but she did so, adding at last that Alsi had threatened to wed her to this man.
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