Capitolo 71
oppose them.
Buthred was the king of Mercia. He could not withstand Hubba and his
Danish alone, and he could not now have the assistance of Alfred. Alfred was
retried a lot to the duration, and you/he/she has often been condemned since then,
to have manufactured so a separate peace for his/her and he really
immediate dominoes, and abandoned his/her natural allies and friends the,
people of the other Saxon kingdoms. To reconcile with wild
and implacable pagans, on the express condition to leave his
individual-Cristiano neighbors to their mercy, have been considered
ungenerous, at least, if it were unfair. On the other hand those
who vindicate his/her behavior it maintains that it was his/her duty to assure the
the peace and welfare of his really kingdom, leaving the other sovereigns to take
care of theirs; and what he would have done very wrong to sacrifice
the ownership and the his/her life of own immediate subjects to a mere point
of honor, when it was out suddenly of his/her power to protect them and his
neighbors also.
However this can be, Buthred, finding that he could not have Alfred
helps, and that he could not protect his/her kingdom from some strength that him
he was able you bring the field, negotiations also experimented, and him
succeeded in to buy away Danish with money. He paid them a great
highest, on the condition of theirs finally and forever to leave his/her dominoes,
and not to molest him/it some more. Such measure as this is
always a very desperate and without hope. Buying away thievish, or
mendicant or false accusers or oppressors of some kind, are only to
encourage them to come again, after a brief interval, under some
frivolous pretext, with fresh applications or new oppressions that them
street can be bought with again taller you pay. At least Buthred it found him/it this way
in this case. Hubba went for once toward north, in the kingdom of
Northumberland, and, after the various conquests and plunderings there, him
returned again in Mercia, on the declaration of which there was a shortage