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Updated: May 20, 2025
This man was out daily, seeking news with the rest; and one day, just a week after we had come to Cannington, when the frost had bound everything fast again, he came home and sought his master. Heregar and I and Osmund sat together silently before the fire, and he looked from one to the other of us outlanders. "Speak out, Dudda," said Heregar, who knew his ways; "here are none but friends."
And all the land lay waste and neglected, and, as we rode over Cannington hill, a broken helm rolled from my horse's hoof from among the grass of the roadside. Those things brought back to us the memory of war and trouble even in our new happiness; and there, over the river, was the new-made mound over Elgar, the man who had died for his land, and not in vain.
When we came to the steep rise of Cannington hill, some of those thanes spurred on and rode to the summit, and there waited a little, till the men joined them. There was silence, and a closing up as they breasted the steep pitch; and then I must go through woods, and so lost sight of them for a while. I passed close to my own hall closed and deserted.
"Speak to us, Thane; speak to us," they cried; and one he who knew me at Cannington after the first fight added: "Aye, Thane, you made us strong again on the hill the other day blaming us rightly. Praise us now if that may be." Then I cast about for what to say, not being a great hand at speaking, though maybe, when real occasion is, the words have come fast enough. Howbeit, this was in coolness.
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