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"Hubba will be here on the next tide with early morning," I said. He sighed, and rising up went to the doorway and looked out to the hills. "I would that I could make these two noble ladies seek refuge yonder," he said; "but one will not leave her father, nor the other her husband." Then I said: "At least I think you should take Thora there. This is a difficult place for you."
Now the bird had got free in some way, and finding neither of her masters, had fled home, even as Lodbrok said she would. "Now is your story proved to be true," said Hubba, smiling gravely at me, but speaking for Ingvar's ear. "Aye, over true," answered his brother; "serve this man well, Raud and Rolf, for he has been a close friend of Jarl Lodbrok."
Now Hubba had sat very still, watching all this, and he kept his feelings better than did his fierce brother, though I might well see that he was moved as deeply. But now he spurned Beorn with his foot, bidding him get up and speak also. But Beorn only grovelled the more, and Hubba spurned him again, turning to me. "I believe you speak truth," he said quietly, "and you are a brave man.
The tidings of Odun's victory over Hubba, and the capture of the sacred raven, which had spread every where, had awakened a general enthusiasm, and a desire on the part of all the Saxon chieftains and soldiers to try their strength once more with their ancient enemies.
But the lies spoken by Beorn were not yet paid for. From the time when Beorn was made to speak the truth, I was a welcome guest in the hall that had been Lodbrok's, to Hubba at least, and we were good friends. As for Ingvar, he was friendly enough also, and would listen when I spoke with his more frank and open brother of my days with Halfden and his father.
I would have you lose no men, but I would make the Danes mass together by attack on some one point, and that as soon as may be, before Hubba comes. I do not want to hold their place."
When you return I would have you thank her for her care of my brother and I would thank you also, Jarl, for your care of him." Now Ingvar reddened a little, but not with anger, for he saw that I had spoken at least no ill of him to Eadgyth. "Nay, lady," he answered; "Halfden and Hubba and Osritha have to be thanked if any thanks need be to us for caring for Jarl Lodbrok's preserver.
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.
"Let Odin have him," said Hubba; and I knew that he meant that the man should be hanged, for so, as Halfden's vikings told me, should he be Odin's thrall, unhonoured. Then the maiden fled from the hall, glad to have gained even that for the man, instead of the terrible death that the Danes keep for traitors and cowards.
But he is a brave and true man, and will make no terms with the spoilers; so, with other faithful thanes of King Alfred and their followers, he throws himself into a castle or fort called Cynwith, or Cynuit, there to abide whatever issue of this business God shall send them. Hubba, with the war-flag Raven, and a host laden with the spoil of rich Devon vales, appear in due course before the place.
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