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Updated: June 28, 2025
And Ingild sent writing to my father by the hand of some chapman travelling to the great fair at Norwich; and with his letter went one from me also, with messages to Lodbrok for Eadmund had made me learn to write.
As David, the holy king, grew from boy to man suddenly in his days, which seem so like ours when one hears them read of in Holy Writ, so it had been with Olaf with Eadmund and Eadward his brother so it would be with Cnut, and so it was with myself. I have often spoken with men who were rightly held as veteran warriors, and who yet had seen less warfare in ten years than we saw in those three.
If so, it was that he might earn more from Cnut by giving him all the land. But it is certain that thus Cnut wrought best for himself, for the Danelagh received him gladly, while Wessex loved Eadmund. And when Eadmund should die, Wessex would take Cnut for king at Eadmund's word, as it were, by reason of the treaty made and oaths given and received.
"I can only see into a few years, and I cannot always say what I know of them." Then she turned her gaze on me, and stretched out her hand and pointed at me. But her eyes looked past me, as it seemed. "River and mere and mound," she said in a strangely soft voice "those, and the ways of the old time of Guthrum, in the town that saw Eadmund the king.
Now tell me all his story from end to end." And I did so; though when it came to the throwing of the line to the boat I said naught of my own part in that, there being no need, and moreover that I would not seem to praise myself. And I ended by saying how Lodbrok was even now at court with Eadmund, our king, and high in favour with him and all lesser men.
"Aye," said the king, "I have been in England, and therefore I have come to find you. Swein is dead, and your chance has come. Let me help you to win your land again." That was plain speaking, and for the moment Eadmund held his breath, and could not speak for sheer surprise and gladness.
For when the morning came he had laid his heavy burdens down and had passed to the rest that he longed for. And the bells that rang merrily for St. George's mass ceased, and the toll for the dead went mournfully over the city. "Eadmund is king, God help him," men said. So it came to pass that even as they buried the king in the great Church of St.
And Eadmund looked on his foes to see what chance might be for a charge that would break them when arms grew weary. Many were the brave deeds that I saw done in that little time, as the first lines fought man to man. And presently I knew that over against us was Cnut the king, for I saw one who was little more than a boy, whose helm bore a golden crown.
"Our help is in the name of the Lord, who hath made heaven and earth," answered Eadmund, lifting his eyes heavenwards so earnestly, that in spite of himself the wild heathen king followed their upward gaze for a moment. It was but for a moment, and that weakness, as he would deem it, was the spark to light Ingvar's wrath, that as yet he had kept under.
But so long as you yourself have none of King Olaf and myself, it is little matter what he thinks. His doubts will be proved false in time, and he will have fretted for nought." "That is true," Eadmund answered. "I would that he troubled me not with his suspicions."
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