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"He was at Gainsborough," said Olaf, "and he was about to make his way south to Eadmund's burg. Whereon men say that to save his town and shrine the holy martyr, King Eadmund, whom Ingvar slew, thrust Swein through with an iron lance. Some say that he slew him otherwise, but all agree as to his slayer. And now I think that England will rise." "What of Cnut, Swein's son?" asked Eadmund.
But a ship that had sprung a leak in some way put into Wulfnoth's haven at Shoreham from this fleet, and from thence we learnt that the Danes had halved their forces, and that Cnut and Ulf the jarl were going again into the Severn to withstand Eadmund in Wessex, and if possible to hem him in between two forces in the old way of the days of Alfred. London was beset straitly, but not taken yet.
Our people had never forgotten that the Wessex kings were far from them, and that little help came from thence. Now, when I came to Egil, I told him that the letter I had gotten bore messages to me from Eadmund, and I read it to him so far as I have written here. "This is good," he answered, when I said that it should be as the king said. "Now are you Cnut's man and my friend indeed.
Many were the tales I had heard of the coming of Ingvar's host in the days of Eadmund our martyred king, who was crowned here at Bures in our own church, and those tales were terrible. Now the like was on us, and I saw that what I had heard was not the half. The old steward rose up now, shaking his head in sorrow. I think he was too old for fear.
"Why, so we will, if they make it worth our while," said Guthrum, nodding to me. "What ransom will you take from us?" I asked them. "The keeping of Eadmund, your king," answered Ingvar; "nothing more nor less." "It seems to me that you will have to fight before you take him," I said plainly; for no man in all the Anglian ranks would have listened to that. "That is too much," said Guthrum.
Then fell the shadow of ill on us. Edric Streone and his men met us at Aylesford, and he came in to the king and made most humble submission to him. And that was what Olaf had told Eadmund would happen when once again he had the victory. Therefore when I saw the earl come into the camp to speak with Eadmund I said: "Mind you what Olaf said. How that you should hang Streone." "Aye, I mind it.
Mercia was saved by a march of King Æthelred to Nottingham, but the peace he made there with the northmen left them leisure to prepare for an invasion of East-Anglia, whose under-king, Eadmund, brought prisoner before their leaders, was bound to a tree and shot to death with arrows. His martyrdom by the heathen made Eadmund the St.
That was Eadmund's calm answer, and looking on Ingvar I saw the same bode written in his face as had been when I would not honour his gods. Then he spoke slowly, and his words fell like ice from his lips. "It seems to me that this land is in the hands of us heathen without your giving." "So that may be, for the time," answered Eadmund; "but your time of power has an end."
I will have you put the penny where you may see it often, and so you shall remember, and vow if you will, that when your eyes fall on it you shall say a prayer to Him who gave power to Eadmund to conquer in dying, for this home of yours and this church, that out of ruin may come beauty, and after war, peace." "I will make that vow, father," I said gladly.
"It is a good plan, but I have not tried it," said Eadmund; and then Streone spoke. "The old Saxon line is surely good enough," he said. "What need to take up with outland plans?" "It will be good enough if our men fight as at Sherston," Eadmund answered.
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