Harold's brother, Gurth who was in charge of the part of the army that Wulf was in, finally came to the castle. He congratulated Wulf on having captured it and praised him highly. Then the rest of the Welsh gave up publicly and so the Saxons were able to go home.
At home, they found that there was more trouble. Harold's other brother, Tostig, had land that he ruled over but he would constantly be leaving to go other places and his people had finally had enough. At that time he was with King Edward, hunting.
Two of the Normans took advantage of the rebellion and stirred it up even more. When Harold arrived on the scene he sent a message to the king to ask him to come and help him quell the rebellion or do something to help. The king didn't want to stop hunting so he gave Harold to speak in his name so that people would listen to him. Because Harold wanted peace he thought he should allow the people to dethrone Tostig, but he loved his brother and therefore didn't want to do that to him. He tried to convince the people to keep Tostig and stop the rebellion, but they refused.
The only option left, then, was to give the people what they wanted. They made one of the Normans who had been stirring them up their Earl and they not only deposed Tostig, but made him and outlaw and confiscated his money.
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