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King Olaf’s Kinsman

CHAPTER 7: The Fight At Leavenheath
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Then was some tumult and fighting inside the town, but they opened to us, and we rode in.

There were some slain men in the street, for what Danes had been there had resisted the surrender to so small a force.
But the Sudbury folk rejoiced to see us, and hailed Ethelred as king very gladly.

Then Olaf bade them raise what men they could and join him at Bures on the morrow with the first light.

Thereat the old sheriff of Sudbury, whom I knew well, promised that we should have all the men whom he could raise.
"Nor will they be your worst fighters, King Olaf," he said, "for we have many wrongs to avenge." It was late evening when we went back.

And in the road where it winds between the river and the hill before one comes into Bures street waited Rani and some men with news.


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