Yet it was true that the heathen thane had scoffed at him, rather than forbidden him to seek Ina, though indeed it was plain that he meant to bind us from making trouble for him in any way.

But at last Owen said that if the king would forbear to take revenge for a wrong done to me, he might speak, and so after promise given he told all.
Very black grew the handsome face of the king as he heard.
"Am I often deceived thus ?" he said.

"I will even send some to ask of all the ins and outs of such another case hereafter.

This Erpwald sent to me to say that Aldred and all his house had been slain by outlaws, and that he himself had driven them off and I believed him.

After that I made over the Eastdean lands to him, and I take it that they were what he wanted.