Then we gathered the levies again--ay, I know why you look so impatiently, King Ranald--and came here after them.

As for the rest, you have taken your part.
Now we have them all inside these walls, and I think we have done." Then his face grew dark, and he added: "But I cannot tell.

What can one do with oath breakers of this sort ?" Then I said: "Surely you do not look for the men of one chief to be bound by what another promises ?" He looked wonderingly at me for a moment, and then said: "How should it be that the oath of their king should not bind the people ?" "Why," said I, "you have spoken of several chiefs.

If Guthrum chooses to make peace, that is not Halfden's business, or Hubba's, or that of any chief who likes it not.

One is as free as the other." "What mean you?
I say that Guthrum and his chiefs swore by the greatest oath they knew to return to Mercia." "If they swore by the holy ring, there is no doubt that they who swore would keep the oath.