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Wulfric the Weapon Thane

CHAPTER X
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Yet to East Anglia for your sake I will not come." Then he grasped my hand again in farewell, and he went inside the gates and closed them, and Raud and I went quickly to his place.
There we found those two other good friends of mine waiting, and they told me that all was well prepared to save them from the wrath of Ingvar, for they had been bidden to carry messages, and other men of the crew who lived far off would do this for them, for I feared for their lives also when the flight was known.
Long was the way to Hedeby, where Ansgar the Bishop had built the first church in all Denmark.

But we won there at last and in safety.

And there Ansgar's folk received me well, and I parted from my three comrades, not without grief, so that I asked them to take service with us in England.

Almost they consented, but Rolf and Thoralf had wives and children, and Raud would by no means leave his brother.
Now in a few days, a company of merchants went from Hedeby with goods for England, and with them I went; and in no long time I came into Ingild's house by London Bridge, and was once more at home as the second week in May began..


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