I knew not that that peaceful youth could rage so terribly when occasion was, It was ill to speak of Cnut to him--or of the queen either.

Now I spoke with his few thanes, and they held that it was of no use to try to attack England.

None would rise to help him.

But he begged me to go with him for the sake of old days and common hatred of the Dane.

Wherefore I thought that it was as well for England that he learnt his foolishness, and we went together, and were well beaten off from the first place we put into.