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Updated: June 7, 2025
So we went on our way unhindered, and I bided, chafing sorely, in the great house where Wulfnoth lived in no state at all, as if he were but a rich franklin gray clad and rough in ways and talk. Now it is hard to me to think of what passed so close to me while I was helpless.
Then Wulfnoth and Godwine gave me twenty pieces of the gold from the treasure, and bade me return ere long. "And I think that you will come back presently with an itching to get home a sword stroke at one whom I care not to name lest I break out," said the earl grimly. "At Streone?" said I, being light of heart. "Aye; curses on him!" answered Wulfnoth, and turned away with a scowl of wrath.
"Come not if you fear her," said Wulfnoth; "bide with the horses if you will, while I and Olaf's cousin go in. Maybe there will be a message that he must take to his kinsman." "I have nought to seek from the old dame," said Relf, "nor is there aught that I fear from her. I give her venison betimes, as is fitting. I will bide with the horses."
Wulfnoth would have no mercy shown to these wretches who would harry the peaceful villagers their own kin. They would but band together again. Now I did a foolish thing which might have cost me my life. For two outlaws ran into one of the old stone buildings of which I had heard, and I followed them.
There was nought of which I could be sure save of Uldra's friendship, and of that it were better not to think, maybe. Ten days after I spoke thus with Uldra I was at Berkeley with Wulfnoth and Godwine. That was in the third week in June, while I was on my honour not to fight for a month yet.
There was a long seat hewn from the rock at the very back of the place and to one side, and Wulfnoth drew me down beside him upon it, and there we sat silent, waiting for I knew not what. A great yellow cat came and rubbed itself, tail in air, against my legs, and I stroked it, and it purred pleasantly.
There were Englishmen who fought for Cnut thinking that thus they wrought best for England and her peace as Wulfnoth chose for Godwine and I had no hatred for them. They were honest if they were wrong; but they were no traitors. But Edric Streone was as Judas to me.
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