"She gave us our first teachers in the Christian faith.

And Swein has held Norway, my own land, with the help of the heathen jarls who are yet there.

I fight the fight of the Cross, therefore, and when I go back to my own land, it will be to sweep away the last worship of Odin and Thor.

But the time has not come yet," and his eyes shone strangely.
"When it comes I will help you," said Eadmund, "if it may be that I can do so." "I know it, and I thank you; but it is my thought that I shall need no help," said the king, while the look on his face was very wondrous, so that I had never seen the like.

It minded me of the pictures of St.Stephen that I saw in a great church here with Abbot Elfric and Eadward.