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Updated: October 10, 2025
I shook my head, but it came over me for a moment that I wished I might recall the wandering fancies of the winter days in Penhurst but that passed, and I was lonely in heart. "Nay, thane, that is not so. My sword here is all that I love next to my king and Olaf my cousin and Relf the thane. I have no love for any maiden, nor could Sexberga think twice of me." "If you had bided a little longer.
"Come, let us go back to the village." So we went back together, but Sexberga had gone on her way homeward without us. Whereat Eldred was not sorry, and said that he was going back to his own place. "You will see me no more for a few days," he said. "I think your plan is good." "Mind this," I answered, "I never tried it." "Lookers-on see best," he answered, laughing bitterly.
"I had the intention to get to you but I fell " His words died away in a whisper, and his eyelids drooped. Sister Sexberga turned again to seek her restorative. Sister Wynfreda leaned over and shook him. "Answer me, first. Where is your master? And young Fridtjof? And your mistress?" He shrank from her touch with a gasp of pain. "Dead," he muttered.
Now, there was another person who should have known of this betrothal of mine, and that was Edred, but Sexberga never told him, and her mother did not, for she thought that Sexberga would do so. Of all the foolish things that a maiden can do, the most foolish is to try to make the man who is to wed her jealous.
There would be time to shout when I heard voices again, and it was not good to make much noise in that place after the blow of a club that had set my ears ringing already. Then I fell to thinking of Sexberga, and those thoughts were pleasant enough.
So I said: "That is all one can do, lady; it matters not." "What thinks Sexberga?" I asked presently. "You have not spoken to her of your search, then?" the lady said. "I had thought that she would ask you of it first of all." She had asked nothing, and I had said nothing.
A pleasant place enough it was, truly, for the rocks stood round in a little cliff, hemming in a lawn of short grass on every side but one, and the trees that hung on the bank of the stream closed that in. So when we were fairly within this circle of red cliff and green trees Eldred said: "This will do. We will see which of us is to go back to Sexberga."
But this seems to be good sport to some damsels, and so it was with Sexberga. The blacker grew the young thane's looks the more she would praise me, and the more she would choose to speak with me rather than to him; wherefore his life was made wretched for him, and I think he hated the sight of me.
And now Sexberga began to weave fancies of how I should meet this long-lost bride of mine, and I could make no answer to her playful railing, for I saw more clearly than she. And her mother knew that this must be so, and sent her away on some household errand, and I was glad. Then she laid her hand on mine, and spoke very kindly to me.
"Now," said I, "I was betrothed long ago the war time has come between me and her who should have been my wife. I have hunted for her and cannot find her and that is all. Now you understand. It was Sexberga who cheered me in my search, and so I spoke to her thereof." "I should not have doubted you," he said frankly; "forgive me." I held out my hand and he took it.
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