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counties were Saxon, and must be cleared of the
intruders ; in these Anglian districts all were aliens to
Wessex, and there was no question of driving out the
Danes if they would live peaceably and own Eadward’s
rule.
He was now master of four out of the Five
Boroughs. His sister, the Lady of the Mercians, was
dead, and he took her province into his own hands,
carrying out her work. In 920 he built a fort at
"Manchester in Northumbria," and in 921 another
at Bakewell in Derbyshire, where (as the Winchester
Chronicle asserts) he received the adhesion of all
the rulers of the north, except those of the Orkneys
and Hebrides. It is not stated that they appeared
before him in person and gave their kingdoms into his
hands; "they chose him for father and for lord."
It was before the days of feudalism, though this was
twisted by mediæval lawyers into the performance of
feudal homage with all it involved. The northern
states saw that he was the dominant power, gradually
advancing toward them, and they hastened to forestall
his attack and to court his assistance. With Ragnvald
of York and "all those who dwelt in Northumbria,
as well English as Danes and Northmen and others,"
the jarl of Lincoln must have come in or sent his
envoys, if he had not done so earlier. There is no
word of fighting in Lincolnshire, but the independence
of the Five Boroughs was now a thing of the past.
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