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All the best blood of England was spilt there; and I knew, as we passed the wide ring of heaped corpses where our stand had been longest, that the hopes of Eadmund had come to nought, and that the shadow of Streone lay black across his life.
"Then Cnut looked at him very quietly and said: "'You have the same honours from me as from Ethelred. "'Not so, not so, he said. 'I was wont to sit at the king's right hand, with none between me and him. "Thereat Thorkel would have spoken, but Cnut held up his hand. I saw his bright eyes shining, and Streone should have taken warning, but his fate was on him.
Then she was once more herself again, the lady whose hand I might kiss reverently and look at afar. But in those few moments she had been as a friend who warned me of a danger unforeseen. Even thus had Edric Streone spoken with Sigeferth, fairly and pleasantly.
He turned ashy pale at the picture Egil had drawn of loss of Cnut's favour. He looked once or twice towards me as if he were trying to frame some excuse, but none would come. "I knew it not," he said, falsely enough. "I am glad you came." Egil only laughed, and with that Streone rode away quickly, and never looked back as he went.
If things go ill at home, he will go over sea first, and return here. But if all is well, we shall have fighting enough presently." Now when the court of Ethelred had gathered again, it was not long before he grew more cold in his way with Olaf, and one might easily see that this grew more so with the coming of Edric Streone.
"Now the seven boroughs will welcome Cnut," said Ulfkytel, "and Lindsey looks for him; so he has a clear road into the heart of England." Then I saw that Streone surely wrought for Cnut, else was he a more foolish man than was thought, for all held him as the most skilful at statecraft in England.
But Ethelred holds me as a traitor; and while Edric Streone is at his side I will not have aught to do with him. I will drive any Dane out of my land, and that is all. Neither Ethelred nor Cnut is aught to me. I and my son are earls of Sussex." Then he rose up from his high seat and strode out of the hall, bidding us follow him.
But for Edric Streone, the traitor and low-born, what had been Wolnoth, thy grandsire?"
And I saw my two men leap up among the press and smite over the heads of those around them at Streone, and they were smitten down they had not touched him. That was all in a moment, and I called to the king, and he rose up and leapt on his horse and looked.
Few of us knew then how little able Cnut was to fight the mighty Ironside, but we thought him strong in body as in name. Else had that plan never been thought of. They say that Edric Streone advised Cnut to take the old Danelagh and Northumbria and leave Eadmund the rest of the kingdom, the survivor to succeed to all the land. Maybe he did.
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