Therefore, my thane, for your sake, and seeing specially that already our brother Cnut is well disposed toward you, as Godwine son of Wulfnoth tells us, by reason of your service to Emma the queen--I would bid you accept him as ruler of East Anglia, where your place is.

And you shall hold this letter in proof that thus our word to you is, if in days to come the line of Wessex kings shell hold the kingdom once more.

Few have been those who have been faithful to us as have you.
Now, I will set down no more, for Eadmund my king wrote to me as he was wont to speak in the days that were gone, and I wept as I read his words--wept bitterly there on Ashingdon hill, and I am not ashamed thereof.
And when I had spelt out to the end of his letter there were words also that were pleasant to me.

For they were written by Elfric the abbot, my friend, thus: Written by the hand of Elfric, Abbot of St.Peter's Minster at Medehamstede.
I, Elfric, bid you, my son Redwald, be of cheer, for in the end all shall be for the best.

Bide in your home of Bures if Cnut wills, as I think shall be, and see to the good of your own people as would your father who has gone.