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One thing I knew well, and that was that the warriors who charged wore the war gear of the dukes of Rouen the Normans. How should they come here? and who should weld our English races into one thus to withstand so new a foe from across the sea? "So a battle?" said Wulfnoth. "That is the first fancy that a boy's brain will weave. Battles enough shall my banner see.
"Honour and peace, and the goodwill of all men." "Not mine," I said. "Yours also, Redwald for England's sake and his own." But I could not believe her at that time. Now the angry voice of Wulfnoth called me from outside the place, and the dame said "Go," smiling at me and holding out her hand. "No more can I tell you, Redwald.
None can tell how the places of these hoards are lost, but times of war have strange chances. Then folk do but hand down the knowledge that, somewhere, the treasure is yet hidden . "Good booty had OElla and Cissa our forbears, but they have left some for us," said Earl Wulfnoth. "Here is gold enough to buy a good fleet for Ethelred," said Olaf thoughtfully.
Then all along the coastline grew and widened a white line of flying spindrift that hid the distant gray walls of Pevensea on its low island, and shone like snow against the black dun-edged cloud that came up from out of the sea. "Hurry, men," shouted Wulfnoth, "or the bridge will be down! Look at the tide!"
There the Danes took them presently, and that was the end of England's fleet. But Wulfnoth turned viking; and would have nought to do with Ethelred after that. His Sussex earldom was beyond reach of attack through the great Andred's-weald forests that keep its northern borders, and he could keep the sea line. So Ethelred left him alone, and Swein would not disturb him.
It was that one which Earl Wulfnoth gave me when I left him. "I shall be myself again directly," I said. "How has it all ended? I thought I saw you slain." "The Danes are chasing our men towards yon village," he said grimly pointing towards Hockley. "They will not catch the king, however.
Now Godwine would ever talk with me, for I could tell him of Olaf, and also of the long war, and of the Norman court, so that we became great friends. But he had no liking for Ethelred, which was not wonderful, seeing that Wulfnoth his father had not a good word to say for him.
The Confessor also is as true in art as to history, and his vision of the fall and rise of England is a noble passage. In Aldwyth we have something of Vivien, with a grain of conscience, and the part of Edith Swan's-neck has a restrained and classic pathos in contrast with the melancholy of Wulfnoth.
Now, it was not Wulfnoth's way to give reasons thus for aught that he did, and I was surprised that he would do so to me. But I could look at things in his way if I put my own love for Eadmund aside, and I said: "I may not blame you, lord earl, maybe; but it is hard for me to see my friend take what I think the wrong side." "Think no ill of him. It is my doing," Wulfnoth said.
"Men say that there are Danes among them; and I know that there are men who are well armed beyond the wont of outlaws and forest dwellers." Then Wulfnoth called to us: "See here, King Olaf, this is your fault; you have driven the Danes out of Kent into our forests, and now we have trouble enough on our hands." "Then, Earl Wulfnoth," answered Olaf, "my men and I will fight them here again."
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