Beornwulf hears the news of the Viking landing to the south ...
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Beornwulf assembles his retinue, he orders the dragon standard to be raised. Sound the horn, send runners to call out the fyrd ...
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Beornwulf arrives near where the vikings were last seen and deploys the fyrd in a shield wall on a rise
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However they too late. All there is to see are a couple of smoking villages and a Viking ship, with its sail raised, far down the estuary on its way out to sea.