17/38 He knows me well enough, and cares nought about me," I answered. "I suppose you have offended him in some way." Then Elfric said: "That is so. Redwald escaped from his hands at Stamford. We heard many tales about it at Peterborough. They say that Eadmund the Martyr came bodily and saved him out of a house beset by the earl's men." "If there is one dead man that we Danes have to fear, it is that king," Egil said. |