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Updated: July 14, 2025
They could not break our ring, and we were coming to broken land where we might have some advantage. Then Eadmund said: "We will go to yonder hill and hold it. Then will East Anglia come to us, and we can begin again tomorrow, maybe; and if not, we can watch the Danes away. All is not lost yet." So we went to Ashingdon hill, and there formed up.
It is that if, in its present mood, suddenly, the British public, and more especially the London public, were allowed to realize clearly both what has happened in East Anglia, and the monumental unfitness of our authorities and defences to meet and cope with such an emergency that then we should see England torn in sunder by the most terrible revolution of modern times.
Yet I was in no worse case than were many nobly-born men at that time; for whosoever would not bow to Harald and his new laws must leave Norway, and her bravest were seeking new homes everywhere. Some had gone to far-off Iceland, and some to East Anglia; some to the Greek emperor, or Gardariki, and more yet to Ireland.
Papists count all to be Calvino Papistæ, i.e., half Papists, who are not Puritans, and daily invite them to an association with them against the Puritans, as Parker showeth out of a treatise entitled, Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ in Anglia contra Calvino Papistos et Puritanos.
I rose up hastily, and went back to my horse, while the lady who had spoken just now busied herself in caring for her mistress. Selred took my arm and walked aside with me. "You must not come back to East Anglia," he said. "I know that you would fain see the lady of Thetford, but it were useless danger for you.
"Danish laws in the Danish Anglia," she said, "and the peace that comes after the sword and the torch." "Fire and sword we have had," I said. "Danish laws have ever been ours. But Ethelred shall be king." "Ethelred is king," she answered; "but I speak of time to come." Then Wulfnoth broke in: "What is this that you speak of, dame?
From every point of view it was a suitable union, seeing that Athelwold would inherit power and great possessions from his father, Earldoman of East Anglia, and before long the marriage took place, and by and by Athelwold took his wife to Wessex, to the castle he had built for himself on his estate of Wherwell, on the Test.
No longer did the child from far-off Anglia ride about on his mistress's errands; a female slave, punished for boxing his ears, had stifled him as he slept, and fled that night with five or six others who were tired of the lady's caprices and feared her cruelty. Her aviary was empty.
Next came Northumbria, Lindsey, East Anglia, Wessex, and even inland Mercia. But Sussex still held out for Thor and Woden as late as 679, three-quarters of a century after the conversion of Kent, and twenty years after Mercia itself had given way to the new faith. Even when Sussex was finally converted, the manner in which the change took place was characteristic.
They were filled with fighting men, and sailed to attack the Danes in the Stour, after which the force was to land and to inflict a severe punishment upon East Anglia. On hearing of the gathering of the Saxon fleet Athelstan sent across to France and begged the Danes to come to his assistance, but none of their vessels had arrived when the Saxon fleet reached the mouth of the Stour.
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