Above all things that made for our content Cnut promised to send home his host.

Nor was it long before Jarl Eirik sailed away with all but those to whom lands had fallen.

There were many manors whose English lords had died, and they must own Danish masters.
And I will say this other word, that now at the time that I write of these things, men speak of English only, for Cnut has welded the races of England into one in such wise as has never been before.
So I mourned for Eadmund, and wrought at home-making until the springtime came, and all the while the thought of Uldra grew dearer to me, and I longed to seek her again.

And the thought of Hertha and my betrothal seemed as bondage to me.

Yet I would do nought till Ailwin came or till I could find him.