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On the other hand, it was not well supplied with water or provisions, and the numerous multitude which had crowded into it, would, as Hubba thought, be speedily compelled to surrender by thirst and famine, if he were simply to wait a short time, till their scanty stock of food was consumed.
Alfred did not pay particular attention to Halfden's movements at first, as he supposed that his treaty with Hubba had bound the whole nation of the Danes not to encroach upon his realm, whatever they might do in respect to the other Saxon kingdoms. Alfred had a famous castle at Wareham, on the southern coast of the island. It was situated on a bay which lies in what is now Dorsetshire.
The circumstance which occurred to hasten the development of Alfred's plans, and which was briefly alluded to at the close of the last chapter, was the following: It seems that quite a large party of Danes, under the command of a leader named Hubba, had been making a tour of conquest and plunder in Wales, which country was on the other side of the Bristol Channel, directly north of Ethelney, where Alfred was beginning to concentrate a force.
That made the jarl think that somewhat was amiss, and he bade his men bind us both. "Bind them fast, and find my brother Hubba," he said, and men rode away into the forest. But I spoke to him boldly. "Will you bind a man who bears these tokens, Jarl?" And I held out my hand to him, showing him the rings that Lodbrok and Halfden had given me.
The kings Guthorn, Bergsecg, Oskytal, Halfdene, and Amund, and the Jarls Frene, Hingwar, Hubba, and the two Sidrocs, with all their followers, had marched down from Yorkshire to join the invaders who had just landed. The news of this immense reinforcement spread consternation among the Angles.
So Alfred said, and we, who began to see what his great plan was, were cheered. In the evening Odda came with eight hundred men of Devon. Alfred had two hundred maybe, and my few men and the townsfolk made another two hundred. But Hubba had twenty-three longships, whose crews, if up to fighting strength, would not be less than a hundred in each.
But Hubba cried out in wonder, and the men and Ingvar came out to see what his call meant. Then they, too, were amazed, for they knew the bird and her ways well. I had spoken of the falcon once or twice, telling the jarls how she had taken to me, and I think they had doubted it a little.
"Now, therefore," said Hubba, "you yourself shall question Beorn, for there are things you want to know from him. And he will answer you truly enough." "After that you shall slay him, if you will," said Ingvar, in his stern voice, "I wonder you did not do so in the boat. Better for him if you had." "I wonder not," said Hubba. "The man is fit for naught; I could not lay hand on such a cur."
In fact, both armies were, for the time, pretty effectually disabled, and each seems to have shrunk from a renewal of the contest. Instead, therefore, of fighting again, the two commanders entered into negotiations. Hubba was the name of the Danish chieftain.
"Where is Hubba?" I asked, wondering. "He is not far from us. He will come when I need his help." "Then we need not meet," I said; "I am in the centre." Now we both returned to our places, and again Eadmund, after I had told him that we must fight, asked me to stand out. "For," said he, "you are in her father's place to Eadgyth."
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