But that does not bind those who were against the peace making.

So I suppose that they who held not with the peace made by the rest fell on you, when your levies went home after their wont.

One might have known they would do so." Thereat the thane was silent for a while, and I saw that he was troubled.

It seemed to be a new thought to him at this time that the Danish hosts in England were many, and each free to act in the way its own chief thought best, uniting now and then, and again separating.

This he must needs have learned sooner or later, but the knowledge came first to him there before Exeter walls.
Presently he said: "I have believed that all the Danes were as much one under Guthrum their king as are my folk under theirs.