For Halfden and Bagsac and the Sidracs are on one side of him, and Ingvar and Hubba the other, waiting for him to make peace.

But there is like to be fighting.

Alfred, the king's brother, has a brave heart and a hard hand." "Then all is quiet in London ?" "Peaceful enough; and there Guthrum the King holds court, and I think men are well content with him." "Of what is Guthrum king ?" I asked, for I had not heard him called by that name before.

The only other king of the host beside the three jarls was Bagsac.
"Why, of East Anglia.

He holds it for Ingvar, while he tries to add Wessex for his own to Mercia.