Chapter 15
Marriage to Egfrid AD 659When Oswy heard the terms Ethelwald had laid down for the marriage contract he started to pace the hall, his face flushed red, his eyes sparking with anger. Eanfleda, not yet knowing what the gist of the reply from Ethelwald was, but knowing that sometimes the ungovernable rages of her husband could be very shaming and destructive, cleared the place at once of all other people.
When they were alone she watched him for some time, waiting her opportunity to find out what had happened. She knew that he had set his heart on the marriage alliance and from his reaction she assumed it had been refused. She was secretly glad. Egfrid was barely fifteen and Etheldreda was a widow of twenty-nine. Anna’s youngest daughter, Withberga, was eleven. If there had to be
