And now it is in my mind that she went thus lest she should weep.

So I was alone in the hall, and there was no more left for me to do.

I must even let things be as she would.

It came into my thought that she was right about our half-Danish folk, for though they had fought to keep the newcomers from the land that their fathers had won, Swein was no foreigner, and they would as soon own him as Ethelred of Wessex, if he got the upper hand and would give them peace.

Even we Angles never forgot that the race of Ecgberht was Saxon and not of our own kin altogether.