Where stand you in your line ?" "On the right," he said; "Guthrum is on the left." "Where is Hubba ?" I asked, wondering.
"He is not far from us.

He will come when I need his help." "Then we need not meet," I said; "I am in the centre." Now we both returned to our places, and again Eadmund, after I had told him that we must fight, asked me to stand out.
"For," said he, "you are in her father's place to Eadgyth." "Until after the wedding, my king," I said; "but you are in my father's place to me always.

Should I have left him ?" So I said no more, but stood in my place before him, for I loved him now best of all men in the world since my father was gone, and it seemed well to me to die beside him if die he must.
Now our king gave the word, crying, "Forward, Christian men!" and we shouted and charged with a good will on the Danes, and the battle began.

Hard fighting it was on both sides, but our men in their want of order jostled and hindered one another, so that I saw more than one struck down by mischance by his own comrades.

But the Danes kept their even line, bent round into half a circle so that we could not outflank them, and our numbers were nearly equal.
Men have said that I did well in that fight, but so did we all, each in his way.