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Three separate blazes of insurrection, from northwest to east, along the Watling Street. Eastward, round Stafford, and the centre of Mercia, another blaze of furious English valor. Morcar, Edwin's brother, must be there, as their Earl, if he too was a man. Then in the fens and Kesteven. What meant this news, that Hereward of St. Omer was come again, and an army with him?
The two earls in the north, Edwin and Morcar, are enemies of your house. Make them your friends by marrying their sister, Aldwyth. Harold was silent. 'Ah, my son, said the old king, 'I know that you have long hoped to marry my ward, the Lady Edith; but you must sacrifice yourself for England.
Edwin and Morcar, the great earls of north and middle England, heads of the house that was the rival of Harold's, who seem to have been willing to see him and his power destroyed, had now come in, having learned the result of the battle. The two archbishops were there, and certain of the bishops, though which they were we cannot surely tell.
Think of Sigeferth, of Morcar, of Elfhelm, nay, of a hundred others; then think not how he has plotted against my life, but how he made my own father hate and disown me; while he, the pampered favourite, swayed all the councils and betrayed the land. O Alfgar! couldst thou forgive him?"
There was but one of his men got out of Durham to tell the news. And now they have marched on York; and all the chiefs, they say, have joined them, Archill the Thane, and Edwin and Morcar, and Waltheof too, the young traitors." "Blessed Virgin!" cried Ivo, "thou art indeed gracious to thy most unworthy knight!" "What do you mean?" "You will see some day. Now, I will tell you but one word.
Then Hereward rose again, and without an openly insulting word, poured forth his scorn and rage upon Osbiorn. Why had he not kept to the agreement which he and Countess Gyda had made with him through Tosti's sons? Why had he wasted time and men from Dover to Norwich, instead of coming straight into the fens, and marching inland to succor Morcar and Edwin?
If he could not ride, he would walk. Whoever lagged, he would be foremost." And, cheered by his example, the army at last debouched upon the Cheshire flats. Then he fell upon Edwin, as he had fallen upon Morcar. He drove the wild Welsh through the pass of Mold, and up into their native hills. He laid all waste with fire and sword for many a mile, as Domesday-book testifies to this day.
At Northampton, which had formed part of the government of Tostig, Morcar was joined by his brother Edwin at the head of the forces of Mercia, together with a large body of Welsh. They found the people of Northampton less favourable to their cause than they had expected, and in revenge harried the whole country, killing and burning, and carrying off the cattle as booty and the men as slaves.
The death of Swegen and the return of Cnut to Denmark left an opening for a reconciliation, and Englishmen and Danes gathered at Oxford round the king. But all hope was foiled by the assassination of the Lawmen of the Seven Danish Boroughs, Sigeferth and Morcar, who fell at a banquet by the hand of the minister Eadric, while their followers threw themselves into the tower of St.
In their eyes, the Englishman was a barbarian; and though the Norman might well marry the Englishwoman, if she had beauty or wealth, it was a dangerous precedent to allow the Englishman to marry the Norman woman, and that woman a princess. Be the cause what it may, William faltered, and refused; and Edwin and Morcar left the Court of Westminster in wrath.
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