Utred is in Northumbria to guard the Humber, and Ulfkytel guards the Wash, and Olaf is in the Thames.

They will drive away the Danes before they set foot on the beach." "They are still fighting the thingmen in the towns," I said.
"Northumbria and Anglia are Danish at heart yet." Aye, and I might have added "Mercia also," but I knew not that yet.
Eadmund should have known it, though.

It was but a few weeks before it was plain that Wessex alone and London stood fast for Ethelred.
I chafed, but Eadmund would not be hurried.

I cannot tell what strange blindness, save it was his trust in Streone, had fallen on him at this time.
Then the earl came from Nottingham, and at the very first he sent for me.

Eadmund had told him my news when he sent for him.
I found him alone in a chamber of Eadmund's house--that which had been Sigeferth's, and it seemed that no memory of the murdered earl haunted him.