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Updated: June 26, 2025
And when I told him what he would, he said, 'Here is a place where a man might lie hid from all the world if he chose. So he laughed, and we rode on." "I mind it," said Heregar; "but it was many years ago." "I think he may be there, for our king weighs his words, and does not forget.
And so plainly did I see that he knew all, that I asked him to do so, and he came beside me and said; "Heregar needs but one thing, my father, and that is the hand of the maiden he loves Alswythe the daughter of Matelgar, and your ward since her father was slain." "Are you so foolish as to ask no more than that?" said the king, smiling.
"Surely not," he said, "for he was sore cast down once, on the hill, thinking him slain. But men had seen him remount and ride on, And Osric bid me, and all of us who seek him, pray Heregar if Heregar it be to come to him in all honour. Let me go and seek him." Then Wulfhere turned to me and asked if I would go. And at that the man made reverence to me, giving his message again.
Unless our fishers have luck, which seems unlikely, we must do as well as we can on oaten bread." Then Ethelnoth said: "There have been no fish caught today, my king." "Why, then, we will wait till the others return; and meanwhile I will hear all the news, for Ranald and Heregar will have much to tell me." So we told him all that we knew, and he asked many questions, until darkness fell.
"Well, then, Mother," I said, hooking up the mail tippet across my face, "if I must go down into the town, surely I will carry that bundle." "That shall you not," she answered, dropping it again, and sitting down on it. "Heregar the king's thane the standard bearer shall bend to no humbler burden than the Dragon of Wessex. Go; and Thor and Odin strike with you."
"Thereby knew I you to be Heregar," said she; "for none but he must stand here with the light of battle in his eyes and his hand clutched on his sword hilt and not go down to the Cross yonder, as the summons is."
Then we rode back, and found the town in such tumult as it is not good to think on. There is nothing more terrible to see than such a flight, and in midwinter. When we came to my lodging, Heregar went in to find Osmund. I would not see him again, lest Thora should weep. But in a few minutes he came out with the jarl. "Here is a wise man," said Heregar.
Then Heregar and Osmund went with Etheldreda to the other two ladies, and they bade them take the horses and fly to Dowsborough camp as soon as the fighting drew every Dane to the eastward side of the fort and left the way clear. Osmund would go with them, and so no fear for them was on our minds.
And in that trial I myself took little part by word or motion, standing there and listening as though the words spoken of me concerned another, as indeed, they might well have done. But first Eanulf spoke to me, bending his brows as he did so, and frowning on me. "Heregar, son of Herewulf the Thane, you are accused by honourable men of speaking evil of our Lord the King, Ethelwulf.
"Is it no good for a man who is accused of disloyalty to have witness that he wished, at least, to spend his life for his country? Moreover, there is work for you to do which fighting will hinder for this turn go to, Heregar, I will tell you no more. Now do my bidding and go, and never will you forget that you helped an old witch with her burden."
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