Their leader was Sweyn of the left hand.

As I lay tossing here, mad with the misfortune which ties me to my couch, I thought of you.

I said, 'If any can follow and recapture Freda it is Edmund.' The Danes had for the most part moved away, and there were few would care to risk a quarrel with Sweyn in a matter which concerned them not closely; but I felt that I could rely upon you, and that you would spare no pains to rescue my child." "That will I not!" Edmund exclaimed; "but tell me first what you think are his plans.

Which way has he gone, and what force has he with him ?" "The band he commands are six shiploads, each numbering fifty men.

What his plans may be I know not, but many of the Danes, I know, purposed, when the war was finished here, to move east through Burgundy.