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"Not since just before last midsummer," I answered; and I suppose my face showed some feeling that the queen noted. "Redwald," she said, "if you would wed this maiden it is I who would give her a portion that should be worthy of her and of you. Can it be so?" "My queen," I said with a great hope in my heart, "if that is your will, I think that it must be so.
Edwin reigneth ouer the Northumbers, his great power and reputation, a marriage betweene him and Ethelburga the sister of king Eadbald vpon religious couenants, the traitorous attempts of murtherous Eumerus against him, his wife Ethelburga is deliuered of a daughter, he assalteth the Westsaxons, and discomfiteth them, Boniface the fift writeth to him to desist from his idolatrie, and to his ladie to persist in true christianitie; the vision of Edwin when he was a banished man in the court of Redwald king of the Eastangles, whereby he was informed of his great exaltation and conuersion to christian religion.
Redwald escaped from his hands at Stamford. We heard many tales about it at Peterborough. They say that Eadmund the Martyr came bodily and saved him out of a house beset by the earl's men." "If there is one dead man that we Danes have to fear, it is that king," Egil said. "Is this tale true?" And he stared at me as at one who had dealings with the other world.
Redwald and Elfric, having shared the common meal gloomily, were seated in the abbot's chamber little did Elfric dream that his brother had so recently been in the same room when one of the guards entered, bringing with him a stranger.
"All things are slipping from me, Redwald," the king said; "nor is there aught that I grieve to lay down when the day comes on which I must pass through the gate of death. Crown and sceptre have been heavy burdens to me, for with them has been the weight of the sword also. I have borne those ill, and used that cruelly.
"I shall wait till Bertric comes back, and so maybe shall have news of your queen to tell you. He should not be long. Relf goes back for the early hay time, he says, but I believe that he is tired of the sea." "I am no sailor, lord," the thane said. "As any of my crew will tell you," Godwine said merrily. "Never, Redwald, was any man so undone as Relf when there is a little sea on.
"Well, I had some hand in it," answered Olaf laughing, "for I told the men when to pull, and when they pulled, the bridge came down. They did it and I looked on." Then young Godwine laughed also, and bade the king welcome most heartily, adding: "You must tell me all about the bridge breaking presently." "Nay; but Redwald my cousin, or Ottar my scald here will tell you more than I may."
"I fear, Redwald, that there is a strange trial coming for you; but I think that you will face it rightly. It is likely that you will hardly know Hertha when you see her; yet you are betrothed to her, and that is a thing that cannot be forgotten." "She will not know me at all," I said. "Women are keen sighted," the lady answered; "but it is more than likely that she will not."
"This gallant warrior," said Edwy to Elfric, "is my friend and counsellor in many ways; and if he lives there shall not be a thane in England who shall stand above him. You will soon find out his value, Elfric." "My prince is pleased to flatter his humble servant," said Redwald. But Elfric was gazing upon the soldier with feelings he could scarcely analyse.
Then he turned to Eadmund, who was, as it seemed, well pleased that I had found so good a friend. And he said: "Forgive me if I have forgotten greater matters for a moment. But I cannot greet a kinsman coldly, and it is in my mind that Redwald is a cousin worth finding, if I may judge by the way in which he hailed my news."
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