It would have been easy for the Saxons to have slain them to the last man; and the majority of the Saxons, smarting under the memory of the cruel oppression which they had suffered, the destruction of home and property, and the slaughter of friends and relations, would fain have exterminated their foes.

King Alfred, however, thought otherwise.
Guthorn and the Danes had effected a firm settlement in East Anglia, and lived at amity with the Saxons there.

They had, it is true, wrested from them the greatest portion of their lands.

Still peace and order were now established.

The Saxons were allowed liberty and equal rights.
Intermarriages were taking place, and the two peoples were becoming welded into one.