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Updated: May 24, 2025
Now when we saw this I know not which was the stronger, rage or surprise, and I called one of the old men. "Where is the king?" I asked. "He is not in the town," he said; "he is away with his own courtmen, fighting against these pirates for Jarl Swend, who is beset by them."
At last he stood upright and came again to the doorway, trying to speak in his old way. "Here have you come in good time, comrades. Where are the Jomsburgers?" "Gone," said Thormod, curtly. "Where were you, King?" Now Ingvar heeded me not, but answered Thormod. "With Jarl Swend beating off more of this crew. Then I saw the ship leave, and I knew where she would go.
It is not the stately marble gateway of the Milanese Basilica, but the low-arched, rough stone portal of the newly built cathedral of Roskilde, in Zealand, where, if a zigzag surrounds the arch, it is a great effort of genius. The Danish king Swend, the nephew of the well-known Knut, stands before it; a stern and powerful man, fierce and passionate, and with many a Danish axe at his command.
Vain, incapable, profligate kings, the tools of such prelates as Odo and Dunstan, were no match for such wild heroes as Thorkill the tall, or Olaf Trygvasson, or Swend Forkbeard. The Danes had gradually colonized, not only their own Danelagh and Northumbria, but great part of Wessex.
And thou art Swend Ulfsson, the king?" "I am Earl Osbiorn, his brother." "Then, where is the king?" "He is in Denmark, and I command his fleet; and with me are Canute and Harold, Sweyn's sons, and earls and bishops enough for all England." This was spoken in a somewhat haughty tone, in answer to the look of surprise and disappointment which Hereward had, unawares, allowed to pass over his face.
The throne of Cerdic was again filled by a son of Woden; but there can be no doubt that the shock given to the country by the Danish Conquest, especially the way in which the ancient nobility was cut off in the long struggle with Swend and Cnut, directly opened the way for the coming of the Norman. Eadward did his best, wittingly or unwillingly, to make his path still easier.
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