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Then he praised the men, and had ale brought out for them, and so recovered his good temper, and at last he said to Olaf with a great laugh: "Verily you may go away and boast that you are the first man who has brought his armed followers inside Pevensea walls without leave, since the days when OElla and Cissa forced the Welsh to let them in.
But presently Godwine went away to Bosham, where the earl's ships were mostly laid up, to see to the housing of his vessels for the winter, and when I grew strong it was rather my place to go to Pevensea and wait on Wulfnoth, if I would see him. I think the earl came to Penhurst more often also, because he would dig for more treasure in all the old ruins in the town.
"Now tell me what became of the brave maiden who withstood the Danes with you, and also my sharp tongue trouble sharpened it, Redwald, and I have repented my hard words to her." "She is with friends at Penhurst, near to Earl Wulfnoth's castle of Pevensea. And she feared that you would hate her." "I would that I could reward her rather," the queen said. "Have you seen her of late?"
I was at Pevensea when Olaf the Thick, the viking, came there." He took my word for my friendship with the earl, and then I arranged for all things to be ready for us in a week's time. We had some rough country to cross before we came to Bosham, and I would not hurry over it.
Then Sexberga clasped her hands together, and said: "Shall I ever forget the time when we fled to Pevensea before the outlaws? And to think of that terror if it had lasted for days and weeks and months maybe, as it would for your Hertha. Could you in no way seek her, Redwald?"
Honest and rough, with a warm heart was this forest thane, and we grew to be fast friends. Now when I was helpless, Wulfnoth the earl and Godwine would often ride from Pevensea to learn how I fared. For Wulfnoth and Godwine alike loved Olaf the king, and Godwine thought of me as his own friend among the vikings of our fleet.
The great sea flood had changed the Pevensea haven strangely, and he mistrusted it. I told Relf all these things, but he cared not much for aught but his free life in the Penhurst woodlands, where he had no foes or fear of foes left, now that the outlaws were done with. "Well, if there must be fighting under the earl at some time," he said, "I am glad that you may be with us."
But his help was worth winning, and Olaf thought that he might do it. So we sailed to Lymne, and then to Winchelsea, and there we heard that the earl and some of his ships were at his great stronghold of Pevensea, which lay not far westward along the coast. And we came there in the second week of September, when the time was near that the ships should be laid up in their winter quarters.
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