"Eight hundred ships he has, and men more than I can count.

The Kentish men have risen, and Olaf is with them; but he has not, and cannot have enough men to stay the Dane.

There must be a levy of all England." Then I was almost beside myself with rage, and could have wept, for the levy that should have been waiting for this had not even had a summons.

And from the bottom of my heart I blamed Edric Streone for all the woe that I saw must come on England.
There was but one thing for me to do, and that was to go back to Stamford and see the Atheling.

He would see me at midnight when no one else dared wake him, maybe, for he would know that I had heavy matters to speak of if I thus summoned him.