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dedication of an early church at Norwich to St.
Vedast, the Flemish saint whose name was probably
introduced by Grimbald and his followers in King
Ælfred’s later years. There was also a church of
St. Vedast in London, near St. Paul’s, and another
at Tathwell, in Lincolnshire, near Louth, which shows
the range of the Flemish missionaries’ enterprise. On
the site of St. Vedast’s at Norwich has been found
an interesting monument—the shaft of a grave-cross
carved with dragons in the style of Scandinavian art,
and dated by Bishop Browne about 920. At Whissonsett
(see an article by W. G. Collingwood, in Trans.
Norfolk Archæol. Soc., XV.), and at Cringleford, in
Norfolk, are remains of other grave-crosses of a
somewhat later type, showing influence from Mercia.
Trouble arose between Wessex and Northumbria,
and East Anglia was drawn into it. In 913 King
Eadward built a fort at Hertford on the north of the
Lea. During May and June he marched upon Maldon
in Essex, and built a burg at Witham ; "a good part
of the people, who were before under the dominion of
the Danish men, submitted to him." The natives of
Essex had not been exterminated ; they were still
Saxon, and easily became incorporated into the great
Saxon kingdom ; but now for the first time we find
Scandinavians accepting—though for a time only—the
rule of the king of Wessex. Jarl Thorketil and his
hölds, "and almost all the chief men who owed obedience
to Bedford, and also many of those who owed
obedience to Northampton," sought him to be their
lord. This was followed by the taking of Bedford
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