summoned all the people, told them the tale
of Havelok, and of the treachery of Godard,
and was first to bow the knee to him. All
the barons, thanes, and knights who were
in that town, served Havelok. Then Ubbe,
whose power was known and dreaded
throughout Denmark, wrote far and wide to
summon knights and sheriffs; and when they
were assembled at his castle, he presented to
them their king's son. So Havelok was
made king of Denmark, and there was
jousting, wrestling, putting of the stone,
harping, piping, and romance-reading. Gests
were sung, and gleemen played upon the
tabor, and the boars were hunted. There
was a feast for forty days; the king made
Robert a knight, and William Wendath, and
Hugh Raven, he made them all three barons
with land, and twenty knights each for
attendance.

Then the good King Havelok and his
barons swore an oath that they would find
Godard, and Robert was the first who came
upon his track. Godard fought terribly, and
after his own knights had fled from him, he
slew and wounded twelve of the king's men.
But he was taken and bound, roaring as a
bull tied up to await the fight with dogs.
Havelok delivered him for trial to Ubbe and
a council of the earls and barons, burgesses
and knights, and when they had doomed
him, they said to the king, who sat still as
a stone: We doom that he be quickly slain,
and then drawn to the gallows at a scabby
mare's tail, a strong nail through his feet,
and there be hanged in two fetters with this
writing upon him:

This is the swike that wende wel
The king have reft the land it del,
And hise sistres with a knif
Bothe refte hire life.

And this was done. We pity him not. He
was false. His lands and goods came to the
king, who gave them into Ubbe's hand with
a fair staff, saying: "Here I seise thee in
all the land, and all the fee."

Then vowed Havelok to build for Grim
a priory of Black Friars, and he did that in
the town where Grim was buried, and which
after his name is called Grimsby. Of Grim
I tell no more.

But when Earl Godrich of Cornwall heard
how Havelok was become king of Denmark,
and that his princess, the right heir of
England was, with her husband, come to
Grimsby, he commanded all his fighting
men to join him at Lincoln on the
seventeenth of March; whoever disobeyed the
summons, he and his heirs should be thrall
for ever. They came, and he showed them
how the Danes were at Grimsby, threatening
the English. Which of you, he cried, will
stand by me while his arms last?

The lef the! quoth the Earl Gunter,
Ya! quoth the earl of Chester, Rayner.

All leapt upon their steeds, and hurried to
find the enemy at Grimsby. Then was a
great battle fought, and doughty deeds were
done. Ubbe bore down upon Godrich,
Godrich upon him, both were unhorsed, they
rose and fought with swords, every blow that
they dealt one on the other would have
shivered a flint. The sweat poured from
their heads. The fight between them lasted
from morning until sunset. A thousand
knights were slain on either side, every coat
dripped blood. When he had sorely wounded
Ubbe, Godrich fell upon the Danes, and
struck them to the mire on every side, till
Havelok came driving down upon a steed.
Godrich cleft Havelok's shield in two, and
victory was doubtful until Havelok struck
off the sword hand of the traitor, then he
took him by the neck, bound him in fetters
and sent him to the queen, commanding that
no man put him to shame, because he was a
knight, until his brother knights had judged
his cause. Then the Englishmen saw that
Havelok was just, and learnt that the fair
Goldeburgh, who was the king's wife, was
right heir to their kingdom. Therefore
they came to the king with their homage,
six earls went to the queen as her
servants, and brought her with great honour
before the people, and the Englishmen knelt
to her as Athelwold's daughter, and cried
out that the traitor should be hung who had
held wrongful possession of the country.
Havelok bade them await the judgment of
his peers. They doomed him to be led to
Lincoln bound upon an ass with his face to
the tail, and so led through the streets of
the borough to a green that yet stands south
of it, where he was to be burnt at a stake
for warning against treachery. And Goldeburgh
was glad, and thanked Heaven
when this judgment was executed on the
man who would have brought her into
shame.

Then Havelok took oath of fealty from all
the English. And he made, by Saint Davy,
Gunnild of Grimsby, who was one of Grim's
daughters, the Earl of Chester's wife. And
when Gunnild was brought to Chester with
high festival, the good Havelok did not forget
Bertram, that was the earl's cook, he made
him Earl of Cornwall, and possessor of all
Godrich's broad land. Furthermore, when
he had knighted him, he gave him for wife
Grim's other daughter, Levice, courteous and
fair as flower on the tree. They lived
together happily a hundred years. Then
Havelok enriched his Danes with land and
cattle, but after the feast of his coronation,
he permitted them to go to their own land,
where he appointed Ubbe to be ruler in his
name.

After this, Havelok and Goldeburgh
reigned sixty years in England, so bound to
each other that the people had one word for
both; they never were apart, there was no
wrath between them, and their love was