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"A fine overlord, forsooth," said the Dane; "maybe one would think of it had he been a second Alfred but Ethelred the Unredy! Not so, King Olaf. Will you own Cnut, or must we make you?" "It seems that we shall not agree until we have fought out this question," said Olaf, laughing a little. The Dane laughed back. "Aye, I suppose not. I would that you had a few more men.
"These folk will side with Swein presently, when they find that he is the stronger, and then the old kinship will wake in them, and the Wessex king will be nought to their minds. Then will be peace here, for the Danes will sweep on to Mercia and London. Do you go to Ethelred the Unredy and I abiding here shall be the safer in the end, and Hertha with me." "But peace has not come yet" I said.
She made no answer, but asked me what were my mother's plans. And when I said that she would fly to Ethelred the king, the old nurse laughed strangely to herself. "Then you go to the very cause of all this trouble," she said. "Truly the king's name should be 'the Unredy', for rede he has none. It is his ill counsel that has brought Swein the Dane on us. We have to pay for the Hock-tide slayings ."
"Why does he not go?" said Olaf impatiently. "Here is time lost when a sudden blow would win all." "Because he is Ethelred the Unredy," answered Eadmund shortly, for he was very angry at the delay.
Godwine went with them to a place on the downs called Chancton, where was a great house of the earl. We parted unwillingly; but we might sail at any time if the wind shifted, and the earl would have him go. "When you have done with fighting for Ethelred the Unredy," said the boy to me, "bring Olaf back here, and you and I, friend Redwald, will go a-viking with him.
I am the Unredy; but I have listened to ill counsels, having none of my own, nor wit to see what was best." He ceased for faintness, and my heart ached to hear him speak thus to me, his servant. But Emma the queen turned half away from him, her face growing hard and scornful as she heard.
So I call on you to submit peaceably to Ethelred, leaving Cnut to take his own land if he can." "We are Cnut's men and Danes," answered Egil, "and from your speech and name it would seem that you are no Englishman. Now if you are Olaf the Thick, own your own king Cnut, and leave this Ethelred the Unredy to his own foolishness."
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