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Mac Kenzie Mac Bride. King Penda's Captain
King Penda's Captain
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OF FEARGUS AND KING PENDA
CHAPTER II. OF FEARGUS AND TORFRIDA
CHAPTER III. THE BATTLE BY TRENT WATER
CHAPTER IV. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER V. THE PARTING OF FEARGUS AND TORFRIDA
CHAPTER VI. THE FALL OF FEARGUS
CHAPTER VII. OF THE MEETING OF FEARGUS AND OSBERT
CHAPTER VIII. THE DEAD HERO OF THE WINWIDFIELD
CHAPTER IX. OF THE FATE OF FEARGUS
CHAPTER X. OF THE WOODSMAN OF SHERWOOD
CHAPTER XI. OF OSBERT AND TORFRIDA
CHAPTER XII. THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD
CHAPTER XIII. AWAKE!
CHAPTER XIV. THE MEETING IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XV. OF THE VILLAINY OF OSBERT
CHAPTER XVI. OF THE BURNING OF THE HALL OF EDMUND
CHAPTER XVII. THE WAY TO ALBAN
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THEY LOST THEIR WAY IN THE GREENWOOD
CHAPTER XIX. THEIR ADVENTURES AMONG THE NORTH ENGLISH
CHAPTER XX. HOW FEARGUS FELL AMONG THIEVES
CHAPTER XXI. HOW THEY FARED IN THE WILD COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXII. HOW THEY FELL AMONG FOES
CHAPTER XXIII. HOW TORFRIDA WAS STOLEN
CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE CASTLE IN THE PENTLANDS
CHAPTER XXV. OF THE FEAST IN SIEGFRIED’S HALL
CHAPTER XXVI. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE FIGHT IN FENLAND
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HISTORY COMETH TO AN END
ENGLAND IN PENDA’S DAY
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Mac Kenzie Mac Bride
A Romance of Fighting in the Days of the Anglo-Saxons
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Now it chanced that Penda had been told of the love of Feargus for Torfrida, by Osbert, his enemy; and, though the king loved Feargus much, he felt anger against him, and Osbert had even advised him secretly to seize the Pict. So when Penda learnt from the thanes who had slain her two brethren, of the saving of Torfrida and Edwy by Feargus, he sent for the prisoners, and ordered Torfrida to be imprisoned and the boy Edwy and his thanes to be slain. When Feargus heard of this he hied him to Penda and stood up, and said he—
“O king Penda, sore have we wrought against Sigmund and his kin, and many men of his have we slain, little boots it to slay this boy or the faithful thanes who fought for him, in cold blood. Right well they wrought and soldierly against thy thanes, but an unsoldierly death wouldst thou deal to them; oh, never will the light of day seem fair to thy captain Feargus if the blood of these warriors stains the sword of his king. Doth the conqueror of Edwin, and Oswald, and Sigeberht, and Ceanwealh, and Sigmund need the blood of a boy who hath only once wielded war brand?”
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