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Half the horses were taken to fetch the plunder, the other half left where they were, for the spot was conveniently situated, and the distance from Aescendune only about two miles. When they had gone, Alfgar heard his guards talking together. "What did they say, Hinguar? not any blood?" "No, but plenty of plunder." "That is not enough, we want revenge.
But in the latter part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the portion upon which our tale is based, the year invariably opens with the Nativity hence this reckoning has been used in the text, and the Christmas day in chapter 3 begins a new year. v Now Banbury. vi Death of St. Edmund. Those sons were Hinguar and Hubba.
We have not heard for some years of Hubba, the brother of Hinguar, the younger of the two vikings who planned and led the first great invasion in 868. Perhaps he may have resented the arrival of Guthrum and other kings in the following years, to whom he had to give place.
With Guthrum and Hinguar in their intrenched camp at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet, and fresh bands of marauders sailing up the former river, and constantly swelling the ranks of the pagan army during these summer months, there was neither time nor heart among the wise men of the West Saxons for strict adherence to the letter of the constitution, however venerable.
xii "If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." xiii Martyrdom of St. Edmund, King of East Anglia. This saintly king fought against the Danes, under Hinguar and Hubba, in defence of his country.
When Hinguar and Hubba had heard of the death of their father, Regnar Lodbrog, and had resolved to avenge him, while they were calling together their followers, their three sisters in one day wove for them this war-flag, in the midst of which was portrayed the figure of a raven.
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