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Updated: May 16, 2025
Then the kingdom was Cnut's, and he spoke to the Wessex nobles at a great council in London in such wise that they hailed him for king. There was naught else for them to do. And he promised to keep the laws of Eadgar , and to defend Holy Church, and to make no difference between Dane and Saxon, and by that time men knew that what Cnut the king promised that he would perform.
Through the foresters and retainers who had at Cnut's shout of joy crowded up, Cuthbert made his way, shaking hands right and left with the men, among whom he was greatly loved, for they regarded him as being in a great degree the cause of their having been freed from outlawry, and restored to civil life again. The earl was really affected.
Olaf the king at last must needs leave me, and take the ships back to the Thames, there to watch against Cnut's return, in which he, almost alone in England, believed. But he would not sail before he knew that I would recover, and he left me in the kind hands of Anselm, the old Norman priest, who was well skilled in leech craft, and of Relf the Thane and his wife.
So I call on you to submit peaceably to Ethelred, leaving Cnut to take his own land if he can." "We are Cnut's men and Danes," answered Egil, "and from your speech and name it would seem that you are no Englishman. Now if you are Olaf the Thick, own your own king Cnut, and leave this Ethelred the Unredy to his own foolishness."
After Cnut's short-lived triumph king as he was of Denmark, Norway, England, and half Scotland, and what not of Wendish Folk inside the Baltic the force of the Norsemen seems to have been exhausted in their native lands.
"In urle quae famoso nomine Oxnaford nuncupatur," to quote a document of Cnut's. Dipl. With this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.
This was willingly done, and a number of Cnut's party, who had before borne the stigma of escaped serfs, were now free men. We are too apt to forget, in our sympathy with the Saxons, that, fond as they were of freedom for themselves, they were yet severe masters, and kept the mass of the people in a state of serfage.
One is Father Ailwin, our priest, and my old master who bides here with Oswin, whom I prayed to stay with us also growing old peacefully; and the other is Elfric the abbot, my friend ever, and now Cnut's best adviser.
"I have thought that I should have to ransom you from Cnut's hand," he said, "for we have heard that Thorkel's men took the queen's ship. Were you not taken likewise?" So when he heard of all that had brought me here, he praised Egil highly. "He is a Norseman, and no Dane, by birth," he said. "One may be proud that he is so. I would that he were my man."
The very day that Cnut was brought in, I visited the French camp, and accused him of having been the cause of your disappearance and Cnut's wounds. He affected the greatest astonishment at the charge. He had not, as he said, been out of the camp for two days.
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