The following morning early the little party started.

The great chest was dug up from its place of concealment, and they resumed their ordinary dresses.

The ealdorman attired himself in a white tunic with a broad purple band round the lower edge, with a short cloak of green cloth.

This was fastened with a gold brooch at the neck; a necklet of the same metal and several gold bracelets completed his costume, except that he wore a flat cap and sandals.

Edmund had a green tunic and cloak of deep red colour; while Egbert was dressed in yellow with a green cloak--the Saxons being extremely fond of bright colours.
All wore daggers, whose sheaths were incrusted in silver, in their belts, and the ealdorman and his kinsman carried short broad-bladed swords, while Edmund had his boar-spear.