Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest

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Henty George Alfred. Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. – A QUARREL

CHAPTER II. – COUNTRY LIFE

CHAPTER III. – AT COURT

CHAPTER IV. – A STORM

CHAPTER V. – ROUEN

CHAPTER VI. – RELEASE OF THE EARL

CHAPTER VII. – THE OATH

CHAPTER VIII. – TROUBLE WITH WALES

CHAPTER IX. – IN THE WELSH VALLEYS

CHAPTER X. – PORTHWYN

CHAPTER XI. – THE SECRET PASSAGE

CHAPTER XII. – EDITH

CHAPTER XIII. – HAROLD, THE KING

CHAPTER XIV. – WULF'S SUSPICIONS

CHAPTER XV. – A MEETING BY THE RIVER

CHAPTER XVI. – A VOYAGE NORTH

CHAPTER XVII. – AN ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION

CHAPTER XVIII. – THE NORTHERN INVASION

CHAPTER XIX. – STAMFORD BRIDGE

CHAPTER XX. – THE LANDING OF THE FOE

CHAPTER XXI. – HASTINGS

CHAPTER XXII. – THE LORD OF BRAMBER

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The great Abbey of Westminster was approaching its completion; an army of masons and labourers swarmed like bees upon and around it, and although differing widely in its massive architecture, with round Saxon windows and arches, from the edifice that was two or three generations later to be reared in its place,—to serve as a still more fitting tomb for the ashes of its pious founder,—it was a stately abbey, rivalling the most famous of the English fanes of the period.

From his palace hard by King Edward had watched with the deepest interest the erection of the minster that was the dearest object of his life. The King was surrounded by Normans, the people among whom he had lived until called from his retirement to ascend the throne of England, and whom he loved far better than those over whom he reigned. He himself still lived almost the life of a recluse. He was sincerely anxious for the good of his people, but took small pains to ensure it, his life being largely passed in religious devotions, and in watching over the rise of the abbey he had founded.

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"I was wrong, my lord."

"You were wrong, Wulf; it is not good always to say what we think; and you, as my page, should bear in mind that here at court it behoves you to behave and to speak not as a headstrong boy, but as one whose words may, rightly or wrongly, be considered as an echo of those you may have heard from me. And now to the third charge, that you withstood the prelate; a matter that, in the king's eyes, is a very serious one."

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