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"Lord earl," said I, "you will make me vain." "Earl, forsooth!" he cried, "the clothes have made you mighty courtly all at once. Godwine and Redwald are going back to Bosham, and the earl bides at Chichester Cross mind you that!" And he swung himself on his horse laughing, and we rode away, while the people shouted, for they had gathered in twos and threes to look on him.
The four Earls of Northumberland, Mercia, Wessex, and East-Anglia, whom he set in the place of the older caldormen, knew themselves to be the creatures of his will; the ablest indeed of their number, Godwine, earl of Wessex, was the minister or close counsellor of the King. The troubles along the Northern border were ended by a memorable act of policy.
"Then I was right," said Godwine gleefully. "I will warrant that you two wise heads would never have thought thereof." "Are you coming with us?" I asked him, for I did not care to have to find answers to many questions about our speech with Uldra, as things were. "I am coming by sea presently with two ships," he said.
"Aye, I have heard of him as an honest man," Godwine said. "Come ashore, King Olaf, and you other thanes, and there will be good cheer for you." "Can you steer us into the haven, young sir?" asked Rani, who stood by smiling to himself. "We must have the ships inside the island while the tide serves."
"I tell you, earl, that you have not any share in the wars that shall be seen. And let Godwine your son bide with his sheep so shall he find his place." Then the earl flushed red with anger and waited to hear no more, but flung out of the house, muttering hard words on the dame and on his own foolishness in seeking her.
"Ordgar of Oxford," he said, "take up the glove!" and Edith knew who was her accuser. Then the King asked: "Who standeth as champion for Edgar the Atheling and this maid, his niece?" Almost before the words were spoken young Robert Fitz Godwine had sprung to Edith's side. "That would I, lord king, if a young squire might appear against a belted knight!"
"I shall wait till Bertric comes back, and so maybe shall have news of your queen to tell you. He should not be long. Relf goes back for the early hay time, he says, but I believe that he is tired of the sea." "I am no sailor, lord," the thane said. "As any of my crew will tell you," Godwine said merrily. "Never, Redwald, was any man so undone as Relf when there is a little sea on.
There was to be nothing like the great governments which had been held by Godwine, Leofric, and Siward; an Earl of the West-Saxons or the Northumbrians was too like a Duke of the Normans to be endured by one who was Duke of the Normans himself. The earl, even of the king's appointment, still represented the separate being of the district over which he was set.
Another version makes Harold go, against the King's warnings, to bring back his brother Wulfnoth and his nephew Hakon, who had been given as hostages on the return of Godwine, and had been entrusted by the King to the keeping of Duke William.
He had bequeathed both England and Denmark to his son Harthacnut; but the boy's absence enabled his brother, Harald Harefoot, to acquire all England save Godwine's earldom of Wessex, and in the end even Godwine was forced to submit to him. Harald's death in 1040 averted a conflict between the brothers, and placed Harthacnut quietly on the throne.
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