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archbishop of York, in Leicester, until they escaped
by night from the town ; or, according to Symeon, he
intercepted them on their way to Leicester. It is
rather curious to note the attitudes of the two archbishops
who arranged the peace which followed.
Wulfstan, an Englishman, was the right-hand man of
Olaf the pagan; Odo (Oddi), a Dane by extraction
and archbishop of Canterbury, represented the Saxons.
The fusion of races had already begun, but the old
local independence survived. By the terms of the
treaty Olaf was baptised, and Ragnvald Guthfrith’s
son, at a later date in the same year, was brought by
Wulfstan to Eadmund for baptism.
Olafs baptism did not prevent him from playing
the Viking; he raided the church of St. Balther at
Tyningham in Bernicia, and there met his death (941),
while his men ravaged and massacred at Lindisfarne.
But he was immediately succeeded by Olaf Cuaran
(Olaf with the Brogues), the son of Sigtrygg O’Ivar,
formerly of York and Dublin. He shared Northumberland
with Ragnvald, who had lately been baptised,
the son of Guthfrith, and brother of the late King
Olaf. The invasion of Bernicia seems to have meant
the expulsion of the native High-reeve, or ealdorman,
Ealdred Eadulf’s son, or his brother Uhtred, who had
kept up the tradition of friendship with the kings of
Wessex. It is possible that Ragnvald held this part
of Northumbria. Eadmund naturally feared the
reconstruction of a great Viking power in the north,
which would give him all the work of his father and
brother to do over again ; in 944 or 945 he invaded
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