However, if your savegame is after this, we added a menu in cheat options that call to lords to leave Snothingaham (Important, you use this only as latest resource and only in case lord/king is hide, savegame way is always more stable)
There is a bug which effects the main storyline's completion ability.
Basically, you get tasked with one of Bjorn's quests and Aetheling Aelfred Aethelwulfing end up (in my case) having being kidnapped a month or so back and then when you have a chat to the lovely folks at West Seaxe, state...