Very glad was he to see me safely home again.
"Now am I, with good Ingild your other godfather, in Elfric's place toward you," he said; "think of me never as a king, but as a father, Wulfric, my son." And he bade me take my place as Thane of Reedham, confirming me in all rights that had been my father's.

With him, too, was the great earl, and he begged my forgiveness for his doubt of me, though he was proud that his strange manner of finding truth was justified.
Good friends were Ulfkytel and I after that, though he knew not that in my mind was the thought of Osritha, to whom he had, as it were, sent me.
Now every day brought fear to me that Ingvar's host was on its way overseas to fall on us.

And this I told to Eadmund and the earl, who could not but listen to me.

Yet they said that the peace between us and the Danes was sure, and that even did they come we should be ready.

When I pressed them indeed, they sent round word to the sheriffs to be on the watch, and so were content.