Hubba will come, and you and Heregar will meet him; and whether you win or not, my plan holds." Then I knew that the king saw far beyond what was plain to me, and I was very confident in him.

And I am sure that I was the only man who had the least doubt from the beginning.
Now, after all was planned, Heregar and I rode back to his place, and sent word everywhere that the king was safe, though he commanded us to tell no man where he lay as yet.

None but thanes were to be in the island with him; and from that time the name we knew it by began, as one by one the athelings crossed the fen paths thereto, and were lost, as it were, in the hiding place.
Then we wrought there at felling timber and hewing, until we had bridged the river and made a causeway through the peat to Stanmoor hill, and then began to make a triple line of earthworks around its summit.

No carelessly-built fort was this, for the king said: "If the nobles build badly, there will be excuse for every churl to do the like hereafter.

Therefore this must needs be the most handsomely-wrought fort in all Wessex." There came to us at this fort many faithful workmen, sent from the towns and countryside, until we had a camp there.