This is well--but what has befallen ?" For I must have looked wildly and strangely on them.
"Well would it be if I were slain," I said.

"Why did you seek me ?" "We found the horse coming homewards, and one knew that you had gone into the wood after the king.

Yet we would seek you before we fled." I saw that all were armed, and I thanked them.

But-- "What ails you, master ?" said the leader of the group.
"They have slain Eadmund the king," I answered, "and they have taken his body away." Thereat they groaned, wondering and cast down, and one said: "They will not have carried him far.

Let us search." We did so, and after a long time we found the king's body in a thicket where it had been cast.