Chapter 29 EDGAR ATHELING.

"Oh how wretched

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!"

Shakespeare.

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Sigurd, after the rebuff he had received at the hands of Oswald, sped him on his way to Scotland, aflame with a wrath which was about equally divided between Oswald and the Normans. He was accompanied by some half-dozen of his followers. And there, at