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But Gunnhild had asked her to find me a place with the Lady Algitha, Eadmund Atheling's wife, because I should meet you in his house often enough. That she could do, and would have done. "Then the Danes came, and one day Elfric sent word that he was going to Normandy.
It was no very secret talk among some of us that Edric the earl had made peace sooner than might have been, but that angered Eadmund and the king sorely if so much were even hinted. "Then you will indeed help us?" said Eadmund, for Olaf had accepted the place he had named for him as it were. "I have a debt to England that I can never repay," answered the king gravely.
"Now it would seem that some of us will stay on this hill for good," said Eadmund; "but if we must lie here till the last day it is a place whence one can look out over the English land and sea and river for which we have died." And so he drew us up in the ring again there on the hilltop, which was wide enough, and we sat down and waited for the coming of the Danes.
For when a force that is hard pressed knows that safety is close behind them there is an ever-present reason for giving way. "We can drive this host to the ships, lord earl," I said to Ulfkytel. "Aye, surely," he answered. "They know that the ships wait for them, and so will give back." Now came Eadmund, and behind him our men marched steadily, and at his side was Edric Streone.
Eadric of Mercia, whose aid had given him the Crown, was felled by an axe-blow at the king's signal; a murder removed Eadwig, the brother of Eadmund Ironside, while the children of Eadmund were hunted even into Hungary by his ruthless hate. But from a savage such as this the young conqueror rose abruptly into a wise and temperate king.
"And, moreover, Eadmund the King, and Elfric, my father, will do him all honour." "I will see to that," growled Ingvar, turning sharply from where he sought another weapon on the wall. Not knowing all he meant, this pleased me, for I thought that we should sail together to Reedham for this, before very long.
Now Eadmund told me that I should not stand by him today, for so soon as the battle was over I must go to Hoxne, either with news of victory, or to bid them fly, and he would not keep me. "I will not leave the place that is mine by right," I said. "Not so," he answered; "I would bid you stand out of the battle for sweet Eadgyth's sake, but that I know you would not obey me."
But of Eadmund and his thanes I saw nothing only a lame white horse, that I thought like his, grazed quietly in a field by the roadside, so that for a moment my eyes went to it, thinking to see king and thanes there. Ingvar was not a mile behind me, and I spurred on.
"Well would it be if I were slain," I said. "Why did you seek me?" "We found the horse coming homewards, and one knew that you had gone into the wood after the king. Yet we would seek you before we fled." I saw that all were armed, and I thanked them. But "What ails you, master?" said the leader of the group. "They have slain Eadmund the king," I answered, "and they have taken his body away."
Then a brightness came over the king's face, and he answered me slowly and plainly, and with great joy, as it were. "Presently I shall meet with Eadmund, your martyred king, and to him I will say that his thane of Bures is worthy." "Forget me not also, my father, when you come to that place," Eadward said. "I will not forget.
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