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Updated: May 16, 2025
"All too well; they were Anlaf's men." I hardly knew what to answer, the outrage was so recent, and the excitement of the speaker so pardonable, as I could but feel. Well, at this moment my brother Elfwyn came out of the church, where he had lingered to pray, as he generally does, at his brother's tomb, and, noticing us, came and joined the group.
The name evoked immediate interest, and he was asked several further questions about the destruction of Anlaf's house, and what became of his son. He tried to baffle their inquiries, and thought he had succeeded. These facts the Lady Hilda thought of sufficient importance to justify their communication to Alfgar. They caused her some anxiety. The messenger returned to the army.
The sun was now sinking behind the huge rounded forms of some chalk hills in the west, when the camp became gradually illuminated by the light of numberless fires, whereat oxen were roasted whole, and partridges and hares by the dozen, for the Danes were voracious in their appetites. In Anlaf's quarters one huge fire blazed for all.
The conversation of the Sheriff, Edric Streorn, rose up in my mind as an apt illustration of Anlaf's words. "My boy," I said, "there is nothing perfect on earth. In the visible church the evil is mingled with the good.
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