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All wore daggers, whose sheaths were incrusted in silver, in their belts, and the ealdorman and his kinsman carried short broad-bladed swords, while Edmund had his boar-spear. Eldred placed in the pouch which hung at his side a bag containing a number of silver cubes cut from a long bar and roughly stamped.
Then came the sound of swift hoofs, and there was the ealdorman and one or two others, coming in all haste to know what the urgent call betokened, but by the time that he had dismounted and asked if there was any hurt to his daughter I could only gasp and point downward.
Take this ring of mine and show it to him, and then ride with it to Eanulf the Ealdorman and tell him of our straits. The words I leave to you, who have done better than all of us today." Then he took helm and sword from one who brought them in haste, and armed himself, while I, putting the ring he had given me on my finger, yet stood beside him. When he was armed he turned sharply to me.
The roads leading to Kingston-on-Thames were thronged with travellers of every degree the ealdorman or earl with his numerous attendants, the bishop with rude ecclesiastical pomp, the peasant in his rough jerkin all hastening to the approaching ceremony, which, as it had been definitely fixed, was to take place at that royal city.
"If we have the victory, I think that the wedding will not be put off for so very long," I added to comfort him. He walked back and forth across the hall until Herewald came back, and then started toward him. "Go yonder and speak with her," the ealdorman said, pointing to the door whence he came. Then he went hastily, and we two looked at one another. "How is it with her?" I said.
So I had a talk with the ealdorman, and learnt all; but after that I tried to see her, and that black-haired Welsh maiden of hers told me that she would not see me." "It seems to me that you have had a bad day," I said. "But what does it matter? You have done what seemed right, and if it is taken in the wrong way you cannot help it." "It does matter," he said.
"Only I would bid you remember that the ealdorman Edric sought in like manner reconciliation with Elfhelm of Shrewsbury, and all men know what followed." Here Edric interrupted "I do not sit here to be judged, but to judge. These accusations cannot be heard." "There is a judgment seat above where you will not be able to make that plea," said the prisoner solemnly.
Then Odda would not be behindhand, and he pulled off his own armlet. "If Kolgrim is to be remembered, Thord will never be forgotten. Give this to him in sheer gratitude for swearing at me in such wise that he overcame the sore sickness that comes of the swaying of the deck that will not cease." "Give it him yourself, ealdorman," I said. "You know him over well to send it by another.
"I am Edmund," the young man said steadily, "an ealdorman of King Alfred of the West Saxons. The ship which was seen on your coast is mine; I built it to attack the Northmen who harry our coasts. I am here because, when in chase of four of your ships, a storm arose and blew us hither." "You speak boldly," the jarl said, "for one in the hands of his foes. How old are you?"
They found on arrival that the house had been newly built, and was large and comfortable. The thanes of the district speedily came in to pay their respects to their new ealdorman, and although surprised to find him so young, they were pleased with his bearing and manner, and knowing that he came of good fighting blood doubted not that in time he would make a valiant leader.
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