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Updated: June 13, 2025
So he told me kindly that he had had very full accounts written by the bishop and ealdormen; but now both he and the atheling would fain hear about myself; that is, if my friends already knew all, and if I would not heed Ceorle. Now I saw that I must speak more of myself than I wished, and would fain have been excused, saying something of that sort.
We bided quietly there all the rest of that day and that night, and then in the morning were bidden to speak with the king, Ceorle taking us four himself and sending one to find the lay brethren and Dudda. The king sat with Alfred the Atheling in a private chamber, no other but Ceorle being beside him while we were there.
And it is good to think that, as it were, the grasp of his has never slackened from that day to this, but that he is my friend still. Then Ceorle must say likewise, and last of all the king said; "Friend to all my people would I be, and to none more than to those who have risked life for the land.
And now what am I to say of the years since our hall was built again? Long have they been, and not all happy, for many a time have I had to bear the standard of Wessex against the Danes. Yet Stert fight won us six years of peace, and after that the Earl Ceorle and I led our levies and conquered at Wenbury.
And at that Ceorle laughed, saying that they must be of importance if they would deny the prince an audience, making conditions. And Alfred said very gravely that they were so, and maybe the only people, save the king and queen, who might delay seeing him. So I was curious to know who these were. But we left Ceorle still laughing.
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