Stert

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"Can we let them pass us, and so fall on them as they gain the level land of Stert?" asked Ealhstan, saying nothing more.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

So was a full end made of that host, for none but those few were left alive from Stert field, and Somerset and Dorset had taken their fill of vengeance.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

Many a long year it was before the king of their land, Norse or Dane, whichever he was, learned what had befallen his host, and how their bones lay on the Wessex shore and islands, for not one of all that had sailed that spring returned to give the news, or to tell how his comrades died on Stert fighting to the last, and on the island wishing they had fallen with the slain.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

Now and then we passed huts, but they were empty; for away across the wide river mouth at Burnham, though we rode not into that village, we could see the six long black ships as they lay at Stert, and the smoke of the fires their guard had made on shore.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

Now into what Wulfhere told, my name seemed to come often, for he began with the first landing at Watchet, and my bearing the war arrow, and so forward to the firing of the huts at Stert, to the rallying on

A Thane of Wessex 1884

We know now that there is no truer man, for he has proved it, as some of you know-he being the man who lit the huts at Stert in face of the

A Thane of Wessex 1884

Yet Stert fight won us six years of peace, and after that the Earl Ceorle and I led our levies and conquered at Wenbury.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

But he died as the tide went out on the day of Stert fight, and those who stood by him say that he had visions of all that befell there.

A Thane of Wessex 1884

But all we saw was once, far off on Stert, the flash of bright arms or helm; and there we knew before that men must be.

A Thane of Wessex 1884