And there Ecgbert was welcomed in all friendliness, and our wanderings were at an end.

Even the arm of Quendritha could not reach the atheling here, though Carl and Offa were friendly, and messengers came and went between the two courts from time to time.
In that way I had messages sent home at last, and my mind was at rest.

It was, however, nearly a year before my folk heard of me, as I learned afterward.

But close on five years of warfare lay before me ere I should set foot on English ground again..