They will settle down, and never will East Anglia pass from Danish hands, even if Ethelred of Wessex makes headway enough to be owned as overlord of England by them.

Now therefore is there one place in all England where peace has come, and to that place I would go to end my days.
Here in London the tide of war will ebb and flow ever.

Let me go down with you to Reedham, my son, that I may die in peace." So we did but wait until he had set all his affairs in order, selling his house and merchandise and the like.

Then we hired a ship that came from the Frankish coast and waited for cargo in the Thames, and sailed at the end of July to Reedham.

With us were Egfrid and Eadgyth and my mother and Cyneward, who would by no means leave me, and to whom Guthrum willingly gave leave to go with us.
We came easily to Reedham, and very strange it was to me to see two Danish longships lying in our roads, while our own shore boats were alongside, the men talking idly together on deck or over gunwale in all friendliness.