Well for the king that they had no change of steeds, but had ridden hotfoot after him from the battlefield.

Now their horses were failing them, but they would take me, and delay would give the king another chance; and I was half-minded to stay and fight.

Then I thought of Hoxne, and I put spurs to my horse and rode on again.
Now I came in sight of Hoxne bridge, and half feared that I should see the bridal train passing over; but many men were even now leaving the bridge, going towards the church, and I knew that they were there.

But of Eadmund and his thanes I saw nothing--only a lame white horse, that I thought like his, grazed quietly in a field by the roadside, so that for a moment my eyes went to it, thinking to see king and thanes there.
Ingvar was not a mile behind me, and I spurred on.

And now I won to the turning that leads to the thane's house whence the company had passed, and a few villagers stood at the road corner.