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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Is it wonderful, Wilfrid, that it should come back thus in the night watches?" "It is not wonderful," I said. "Lady, I think that the king is right. "But, King Ethelbert, if I am to say my mind, I would put off the journey for the sake of the peace of the queen your mother." "And thereby offend Offa, and maybe hurt that little playmate of mine? No, it cannot be.
His look was grave and full of care, but not more than it had shown before he left us. "I have seen none of the ladies," he said. "The palace is in a turmoil, and Offa has shut himself up, seeing but one or two of his thanes, in grief for what has been done, as men say, and as may be hoped. Nor will Quendritha see any one, or let her attendants pass from her bower and its precincts."
It contained in effect so much as at this present belongeth to the diocesse of London. One Erchenwin a Saxon was the first king thereof, the which was sonne to one Offa, the sixt in lineall descent from one Saxnot, from whom the kings of that countrie fetched their originall.
There was an old thane who came to see me at this time, and he had been to Winchester within a few days; and he settled the matter, having heard all the court news from Mercia. "Quendritha's power is over for good and all," he said. "Offa has sworn a great oath that he will never set eyes on her again.
There stood Offa and his queen to meet their guest, with the nobles of Mercia round them in a wondrous gathering, blazing with colour, and gold, and jewels, and the white horse banner of Mercia over them.
He is glad enough when it is over and there is no more danger left of which to make a tale. When I first came back to Caerleon I had some news to hear from the Mercian border, and that was nothing more or less than that after all Offa had stretched out his hand to grasp that realm which Quendritha had plotted to give him; for he had gathered his levies, and marched eastward into East Anglia.
"You know me well enough by sight," Jefan replied. "There needs no ceremony. Tell us what you want here." "I bring a message from Offa the king. It is his word that, if you will give up the English fugitives you have with you, this matter of the cattle will not be noticed." "We have no objection to its being noticed," said Jefan. "I don't know what else you could do about it.
What the drinking of that potent wine might lead to was to be seen. I hold that Offa was not himself thereafter, though none might say that he was aught but as a king should be not, like the housecarls at the end of the hail, careless of how the unwonted plenty of that feast blinded them and stole their wits. Presently, indeed, the noise and heat of the hall irked me, and I found my way out.
The last of them were cleared when Offa drove out the Welsh and set his own place there after our fashion. Then he had repaired the earthworks, and crowned them afresh with a heavy timber stockade, making new gates and bridges across the moat.
So I said what I had to tell him of the finding of the king, and how we had come to tell Offa thereof; and as he heard, Selred the chaplain knelt there by the roadside and gave thanks openly, with the tears of joy in his eyes.
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