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"Olaf the king, and Ulfkytel of East Anglia, and Edric Streone, my foster father." Then Olaf looked in the face of Eadmund, as it seemed to me in surprise, and made no answer. "Are we not equal then?" asked the atheling. "I have heard that Edric Streone is on the Danish side," said Olaf. "Cannot Utred of Northumbria be trusted?" "Edric has but sought rest, from need," answered Eadmund.
His news was brief. The forces of Mercia had been placed under the command of Edric, formerly the sheriff of the county in which Aescendune lay, but long since returned to court, where his smooth tongue gained him great wealth and high rank.
Then, through that noise or above it, there became audible the notes of far-away horns. Edric Jarl was fulfilling his pledge. Cheers answered the blast. An exclamation broke from the King's lips, and he leaped up. At that moment, "Fridtjof the Bold" fell at his feet with clasped hands and supplicating eyes. "Let me go, Lord King," he besought passionately.
The Lord of Ivarsdale is also English; a mishap might occur if " She flung the words at him; "I care not if it lose Canute his crown! If you will not risk it, I will tell him that the King settles to-night with Edric of Mercia and his men, and that it is to witness the punishment of my kinsmen's murderer that he has sent for me.
When both armies were now on the point of engaging, the wicked Earl Edric called together the chiefs and addressed them as follows: 'Nobles and warriors, why do we foolishly so often hazard our lives in battle for our kings, when not even our deaths secure to them the kingdom, or put an end to their covetousness?
"Hail to Canute of Denmark!" "Hail to the King of the Danes and " Again cheers drowned the rest. The pages, who had sped at the first alarm like a covey of gay birds, came panting back, tumbling over one another in their efforts to impart the news. "A messenger!" "A messenger from Oxford " "From Edric " "Edmund is " " Edmund " "A messenger!" one cancelled another in the wild excitement.
"Not we," said the spokesman of the half dozen. "Settle your own affairs between you." "Take him to yon tree and hang him, and have done," said Edric. "Spear me rather," said I in a low voice to the men. They laughed uneasily, but did not move, and Edric again bade them take me to the tree, which was about a hundred paces away.
For him fame, and better than fame. For him a name that shall never die." "That is a wondrous weird," I said. "Tell me now of Eadmund Atheling;" for some strange power that the old woman had seemed to draw me to ask of her what I would most know. "For Eadmund of Wessex? For him the shadow of Edric Streone over all his brave life." "What then of Cnut, the Dane King?"
Further details we could not gather. All was over when we arrived. Full of indignation, I and my brethren advanced straight upon the group surrounding the sheriff, the crafty and cruel Edric Streorn, and in the name of God denounced the cruelty and sin of which they had been guilty. "Sir monk," was the reply, "are you traitor to your king that you thus league yourself with his deadly enemies?
He created Thurkill Earl or Duke of East Anglia for these titles were then nearly of the same import Yric of Northumberland, and Edric of Mercia; reserving only to himself the administration of Wessex.
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