'It is not fair,' quoth he, 'that I should hold them if one is left of the line of Ella.

I should not sleep easily in my bed.

Nevertheless, I will buy them if so be that one is left to sell them to me.' So he sighed, for the place is his home." "All these years it has been no trouble to me that Erpwald's brother has held the place, my King.

It will be no trouble to think that a better Erpwald holds them yet." "I do not think that he will be happy unless he deems that he has paid some price--some weregild {ii}, as one may say; for slow minds as his hang closely to their thoughts when they are formed.
See, Oswald, I have thought of all this, and the young man has been here for a fortnight.

I brought him here from Winchester, where he joined me.