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Hereward, the Last of the English By: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) |
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BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY
CONTENTS.
PRELUDE CHAPTER
I. HOW HEREWARD WAS OUTLAWED, AND WENT NORTH TO SEEK HIS FORTUNES II. HOW HEREWARD SLEW THE BEAR III. HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED A PRINCESS OF CORNWALL IV. HOW HEREWARD TOOK SERVICE WITH RANALD, KING OF WATERFORD V. HOW HEREWARD SUCCORED THE PRINCESS OF CORNWALL A SECOND TIME VI. HOW HEREWARD WAS WRECKED UPON THE FLANDERS SHORE VII. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR AT GUISNES VIII. HOW A FAIR LADY EXERCISED THE MECHANICAL ART TO WIN HEREWARD'S
LOVE IX. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE WAR IN SCALDMARILAND X. HOW HEREWARD WON THE MAGIC ARMOR XI. HOW THE HOLLANDERS TOOK HEREWARD FOR A MAGICIAN XII. HOW HEREWARD TURNED BERSERK XIII. HOW HEREWARD WON MARE SWALLOW XIV. HOW HEREWARD RODE INTO BRUGES LIKE A BEGGAR MAN XV. HOW EARL TOSTI GODWINSSON CAME TO ST. OMER XVI. HOW HEREWARD WAS ASKED TO SLAY AN OLD COMRADE XVII. HOW HEREWARD TOOK THE NEWS FROM STANFORD BRIGG AND HASTINGS XVIII. HOW EARL GODWIN'S WIDOW CAME TO ST. OMER XIX. HOW HEREWARD CLEARED BOURNE OF FRENCHMEN XX. HOW HEREWARD WAS MADE A KNIGHT AFTER THE FASHION OF THE ENGLISH XXI. HOW IVO TAILLEBOIS MARCHED OUT OF SPALDING TOWN XXII. HOW HEREWARD SAILED FOR ENGLAND ONCE AND FOR ALL XXIII. HOW HEREWARD GATHERED AN ARMY XXIV. HOW ARCHBISHOP ALDRED DIED OF SORROW XXV. HOW HEREWARD FOUND A WISER MAN IN ENGLAND THAN HIMSELF XXVI. HOW HEREWARD FULFILLED HIS WORDS TO THE PRIOR OF THE GOLDEN
BOROUGH XXVII. HOW THEY HELD A GREAT MEETING IN THE HALL OF ELY XXVIII. HOW THEY FOUGHT AT ALDRETH XXIX. HOW SIR DADE BROUGHT NEWS FROM ELY XXX. HOW HEREWARD PLAYED THE POTTER; AND HOW HE CHEATED THE KING XXXI. HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAIN AT ALDRETH XXXII. HOW KING WILLIAM TOOK COUNSEL OF A CHURCHMAN XXXIII. HOW THE MONKS OF ELY DID AFTER THEIR KIND XXXIV. HOW HEREWARD WENT TO THE GREENWOOD XXXV. HOW ABBOT THOROLD WAS PUT TO RANSOM XXXVI. HOW ALFTRUDA WROTE TO HEREWARD XXXVII. HOW HEREWARD LOST SWORD BRAIN BITER XXXVIII. HOW HEREWARD CAME IN TO THE KING XXXIX. HOW TORFRIDA CONFESSED THAT SHE HAD BEEN INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL XL. HOW HEREWARD BEGAN TO GET HIS SOUL'S PRICE XLI. HOW EARL WALTHEOF WAS MADE A SAINT XLII. HOW HEREWARD GOT THE BEST OF HIS SOUL'S PRICE XLIII. HOW DEEPING FEN WAS DRAINED
HEREWARD, THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH.
PRELUDE.
The heroic deeds of Highlanders, both in these islands and elsewhere, have
been told in verse and prose, and not more often, nor more loudly, than
they deserve. But we must remember, now and then, that there have been
heroes likewise in the lowland and in the fen. Why, however, poets have so
seldom sung of them; why no historian, save Mr. Motley in his "Rise of the
Dutch Republic," has condescended to tell the tale of their doughty deeds,
is a question not difficult to answer. In the first place, they have been fewer in number. The lowlands of the
world, being the richest spots, have been generally the soonest conquered,
the soonest civilized, and therefore the soonest taken out of the sphere
of romance and wild adventure, into that of order and law, hard work and
common sense, as well as too often into the sphere of slavery,
cowardice, luxury, and ignoble greed. The lowland populations, for the
same reasons, have been generally the first to deteriorate, though not on
account of the vices of civilization. The vices of incivilization are far
worse, and far more destructive of human life; and it is just because they
are so, that rude tribes deteriorate physically less than polished
nations. In the savage struggle for life, none but the strongest,
healthiest, cunningest, have a chance of living, prospering, and
propagating their race. In the civilized state, on the contrary, the
weakliest and the silliest, protected by law, religion, and humanity, have
chance likewise, and transmit to their offspring their own weakliness or
silliness... Continue reading book >>
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