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In the tragedies of the next few months Hereward took no part; but they must be looked at near, in order to understand somewhat of the men who were afterwards mixed up with him for weal or woe. When William went back to the South, the confederates, Child Edgar the Atheling, Gospatrick, and their friends, had come south again from Durham. It was undignified; a confession of weakness.
Gospatrick and Waltheof's hearts had failed them, and they had retired before the great captain. Florence, of Worcester, says that William bought Earl Osbiorn off, giving him much money, and leave to forage for his fleet along the coast, and that Osbiorn was outlawed on his return to Denmark. Doubtless William would have so done if he could.
I foresaw it, foretold it, I believe to Alftruda herself, foretold that he would not keep his bought earldom three years. What a people we are, we English, if Gospatrick is, as he is, the shrewdest man among us, with a dash of canny Scots blood too. 'Among the one-eyed, the blind is king, says Torfrida, out of her wise ancients, and blind we are, if he is our best. No.
"To my master, like a runaway slave. I went down south to Queen Matilda. I knew her well, and she was kind to me, as she is to all things that breathe. But now that Gospatrick is come into the king's grace again, and has bought the earldom of Northumbria, from Tweed to Tyne " "Bought the earldom?" "That has he; and paid for it right heavily." "Traitor and fool! He will not keep it seven years.
Then Dolfin and young Gospatrick took to the sea, and away to Scotland: and so Tosti rid himself of all the good blood in the North, except young Waltheof Siwardsson, whose turn, I fear, will come next." "How comes he here, then?" "The Northern men rose at that, killed his servant at York, took all his treasures, and marched down to Northampton, plundering and burning.
"You have not heard, then, how he murdered in his own chamber at York, Gamel Ormsson and Ulf Dolfinsson?" "That poor little lad? Well, a gracious youth was Tosti, ever since he went to kill his brother Harold with teeth and claws, like a wolf; and as he grows in years, he grows in grace. But what said Ulf's father and the Gospatricks?" "Dolfin and young Gospatrick were I know not where.
"Not bad news, I hope," cried Ivo, as Ascelin clanked into the hall. "We have enough of our own. Here is all Kesteven, as the barbarians call it, risen, and they are murdering us right and left." "A king of words! What care I, or you, as long as the Mamzer, God bless him! is a king of deeds?" "They have done their deeds, though, too. Gospatrick and Marlesweyn are back out of Scotland.
"Gospatrick," she said, with a half-sneer, "will be as sure, as he is able, to get something worth having for himself out of any medley. Let him have Scotch Northumbria, if he claim it. He is a Dane, and our work will be to make a Danish England once and forever." "But what of Sweyn's gallant holders and housecarles, who are to help to do this mighty deed?"
You know when Gospatrick fled to Scotland his sons went with him. Ethelreda, his girl, went too, and she is to marry, they say, Duncan, Malcolm's eldest son by Ingebiorg. So Gospatrick will find himself, some day, father-in-law of the King of Scots." "I will warrant him to find his nest well lined, wherever he be. But of yourself?" "I refused to go. I could not face again that bleak black North.
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