sentences:  Later, Edmund stood sponsor to him at baptism and to Ragnall at confirmation.In 944, however, Northumbria passed into West-Saxon hands again as Edmund drove out both Viking rulers.The chronicler Æthelweard is clearer on the point of agency, writing that it was Wulfstan and the ealdorman ("dux") of the Mercians who deposed these 'deserters' – perhaps born again pagans – and forced them to submit to Edmund.