No man would but hail him there willingly.

Our people had never forgotten that the Wessex kings were far from them, and that little help came from thence.
Now, when I came to Egil, I told him that the letter I had gotten bore messages to me from Eadmund, and I read it to him so far as I have written here.
"This is good," he answered, when I said that it should be as the king said.

"Now are you Cnut's man and my friend indeed.

Thorkel, my foster brother, is to be Earl of East Anglia, and you shall be Thane of Bures as ever.

And I shall have to mind Colchester and this shore, and we shall see much of each other." So he rejoiced, and I grew more cheerful as the days went on.