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Updated: June 21, 2025


Now all England was open to Cnut, and Eirik the jarl fell on Norwich and drove Ulfkytel back on us, and from him we heard of this trouble. On the eve of St. George's day, Ethelred sent for me to his chamber, for he would speak with me.

Again I warned Eadmund, and again he sent his messages to Ulfkytel the Earl and to the sheriffs, and for a few weeks the levies watched along the shore of the Wash; and then as no ships came, went home, grumbling, as is an East Anglian's wont, and saying that they would not come out again for naught, either for king or earl.

There was no more then to be said. All the while Ulfkytel had watched my face and Beorn's, and now he said: "The arrow condemns Wulfric, but any man might pick up a good arrow that he had lost. And the sword condemns Beorn, but there are many ways in which it might be bloodstained in that affair.

"Is Wulfric wounded then?" asked Ulfkytel. And I was not. "Whence then is Beorn's sword stained?" he asked. Then came my two thralls, and spoke to the truth of my story, as did one of the men who had stayed with them, for he too had seen the deer hanging where I had left it, nearly a mile away from where the fight was.

But he had sent messengers to Ulfkytel at Thetford to warn him to watch his coasts, for he must go back to London with the ships to guard the Thames. "And you, Redwald, my cousin, must go to Ethelred or Eadmund and warn them, and make them rouse, and raise and have ready the mightiest levy that they have ever led, for I think that all Denmark and Norway have sent their best to follow Cnut.

And we fought to reach the Lindsey and Borough men through the Danes, who had filled the gap that the flight of the Mercians had made and won to them. There was the greatest slaughter of the Danish host at that time. But we could not win to Ulfkytel, for the centre and left wing of the Danes lapped us round, and their right drove him back on the marshes, away from us.

But the man is deserted by his new friends. They have gone." Almost had Eadmund quarrelled with Olaf on that saying. "Put him in ward, my king, at least," I urged, and Ulfkytel, who had come with us from London, prayed him also to do so. But Eadmund's fate was on him, and he received his foster father kindly, and forgave him, and thought that all would be well.

Only the Danish horsemen followed us to find out what we did. And we saw the main force drawing back towards their earthworks on one wing, while the other held the place of battle, and it was not plain at once why they thus divided. We rested for a short half hour on Ashingdon hill, and the men of Ulfkytel gathered to us.

"Maybe we shall see it do so," he answered shortly, not seeming willing to hold much converse with me; "but it is likely that you go to your death on the wide sea. Many a man have I shriven at the point of death and Ulfkytel the Earl will not hold me back from your side an you will." Thereat I was very glad, for I knew that the risks before me were very great, and I said as much.

Ulfkytel was on the left, and there our line was flanked by the marshes that lie between the long slope where we were to fight and Ashingdon hill. At least he would have no horsemen upon him from the side, and that flank was safe from turning. The right wing was given to the Lindsey men under their own ealdorman, and with them were the men of the Five Boroughs .

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