He had two sons, men of enterprise and energy; and it so happened that the landing of Beorn took place so near to them, that the tidings soon came to their ears that their father's boat, in the hands of a Saxon stranger, had arrived on the coast.

They immediately sought out the stranger, and demanded what had become of their father.

Beorn, in order to hide his own guilt, fabricated a tale of Lothbroc's having been killed by Edmund, the king of the East Angles.

The sons of the murdered Lothbroc were incensed at this news.

They aroused their countrymen by calling upon them every where to aid them in revenging their father's death.