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They can find shelter in Selsea or Chichester a nun has always friends and a house if Redwald will see them safely to the door," Egil said very kindly. Then he bade the men get out the boat, which was a good one, and fitted for carrying cargo from ship to shore. Two of Bertric's men were to go ashore with me and the nuns, taking messages also to the Bosham folk of what had befallen the ship.
"Goodnight, Elfric, be ready for the morrow. "Goodnight, Redwald, trustiest warrior who ever served grateful lord. "Goodnight, gentlemen all." And thus the royal party broke up, and thus ended the first anniversary of the ill-starred union. On the morrow all was haste and confusion in the royal palace.
For they were written by Elfric the abbot, my friend, thus: Written by the hand of Elfric, Abbot of St. Peter's Minster at Medehamstede. I, Elfric, bid you, my son Redwald, be of cheer, for in the end all shall be for the best. Bide in your home of Bures if Cnut wills, as I think shall be, and see to the good of your own people as would your father who has gone. There is an end of war for England.
And we talked quietly of this and that, as her wheel hummed and clicked cheerfully the while, and at last some word of mine led her to say: "I have heard little of your own folk, Redwald. I do not know even their names." "After my father was slain, I had none left but my mother," I said. "We are distant kinsfolk of Ulfkytel, our earl, but we have no near kin."
Pagan worship was reintroduced; but when Sigberht, the son of Redwald, King of East Anglia, reigned, he sent to France for Christian ministers, and one of them, Felix, a Burgundian, landed at Felixstowe, and there commenced his Christian labours. Felix was held in high repute by the Bishops in other parts of the kingdom. His opinions were quoted and revered.
There was something in his look and the tone of his voice which struck a hidden chord, and awoke recollections as if of a previous existence. "Redwald," as Edwy named him, was tall and dark, with many of the characteristics of the Danish race about him.
Then Olaf said to him: "No ill will come of this seeing of the White Lady, for she came to save Redwald your lord; you may sleep in peace therefore, but it would be unlucky to say that you saw her." Then the man said that he would not speak of the matter, and it was plain that he dared not do so. But he went away cheerfully enough, with his mind at rest from its fears.
'Here, she will say, 'is the companion whom I needed, and a friend of our Redwald's, moreover, and you have not brought her. I pray you, come with us. Do you ask her, Redwald; I am rough, and you are courtly." Then I said: "Lady, this is all that Elfric would wish for you. I cannot tell you of the great kindness that is waiting for you in the thane's home."
And he still had the same pleasant voice and ways, even to the little chuckle as to himself when he spoke, and the way he had of gazing on the rafters rather than at the man to whom he was talking. "So, Redwald, my friend," he laughed, "you have turned viking as it seems! How have you fared in East Anglia with Olaf the Thick?"
Nor had I any reason to think that the dame had any but friendly feelings towards myself, though her bright eyes and tall figure, and most of all what was said of her, feared me, as I say. Now she came towards me swiftly, and did not wait for me to speak first. "What will you at this hour, Redwald?" she said. "Nought but pressing need bade me come thus," I answered.
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