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Updated: June 15, 2025
I will pursue them with unrelenting vengeance, with the death feud, till I have destroyed the accursed race utterly." "Father!" "If you would save them," said Anlaf, who saw he had made an impression, "renounce your Christianity, and I will forget Aescendune." Here he left the tent.
Today I noticed Alfgar, the son of Anlaf, at the high mass, and felt a little discomposed at the relaxation of discipline, which, contrary to the canons of the church, permits the unbaptized, as well as persons who ought rightly to be deemed excommunicate, or at least penitents, to be present at the holy mysteries.
He entered into a confederacy with Anlaf, who had collected a great body of Danish pirates, whom he found hovering in the Irish seas; and with some Welsh princes, who were terrified at the growing power of Athelstan: and all these allies made by concert an irruption with a great army into England.
He gave such satisfaction to the soldiers who flocked about him, that they introduced him to the kings tent; and Anlaf, having played before that prince and his nobles during their repast, was dismissed with a handsome reward. His prudence kept him from refusing the present; but his pride determined him, on his departure, to bury it, while he fancied that he was unespied by all the world.
"Yes," said the king; "we know a way of curing the folly," when, even as he spoke, a spasm, as of mental agony, passed over him, and he shook like an aspen, but it was gone in a minute. Was it the fate of his father which was thus avenged? Every one looked aside and pretended not to notice the fact, and Anlaf, having made his homage, retired, leading Alfgar.
The quarters of Anlaf were in the northwestern angle of the camp; they consisted of huts hastily constructed from the material which the neighbouring woods supplied, and one or two tents, the best of which, stolen property, appertained to the chieftain. Over a wide extent of desolated land, beautiful in its general outline, where the eye could not penetrate to details, looked the prospect.
Before us, at the distance of a few hundred yards, defended by a mound and a ditch, rose the irregular and fortified dwelling of Anlaf. It was wrapped in flames from top to basement, and even as we looked one of the towers gave way, and fell upon the hall beneath, with hideous din, in headlong ruin.
"Then you do not know what is the exact work they have in hand?" "No. But I heard something which made me think that plunder and massacre were both likely to be committed." "Did you hear any particular names mentioned?" "Yes. That of Anlaf." "This explains Siric's insolence, Cuthbert." "It does," I replied. "But surely they cannot intend to do anything tonight.
But the soldier told him, that, as he had formerly sworn fealty to Anlaf, he could never have pardoned himself the treachery of betraying and ruining his ancient master; and that Athelstan himself, after such an instance of his criminal conduct, would have had equal reason to distrust his allegiance.
Anlaf, known as Olaf Tryggvesson, afterwards King of Norway, came with two other Northmen, and harried Ipswich and other places, and then sailed up the Pant or Blackwater to Maldon, where the river divides into two parts.
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