Herward the WakeMacmillan, 1887 - Sermons, English |
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Abbot Aldreth Alftruda arms Arnoul Asbiorn Ascelin asked Baldwin blood Bourne Canute chronicler church Countess cried Crowland curse Danes Danish dare deeds Earl Earl of Mercia Edwin England English Englishman eyes face fair father fear fight Flanders forest fought French Frenchmen Godwinsson Gospatric Guthlac hand Harold head heard heart heaven HEREWARD THE WAKE Herluin holy honour horse housecarles Ivo Taillebois killed King knew knights Lady Godiva land laughed Leofric likewise looked Lord mare married Martin Lightfoot minster monks Morcar mother never noble Norman Norsemen Omer once outlaw Peterborough priest Princess quoth Hereward Richilda rode round saints sent shouted Sigtryg Siward soul stood Sweyn sword tell thee things Thorold thou art thought told took Torfrida Tosti turned uncle Vikings Wake Waltheof wild William William of Normandy word young
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Page 512 - Sachentege was made thus : it was fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor sleep, but that he must bear all the iron.
Page 314 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Page 317 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
Page 512 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 12 - Overhead the arch of heaven spread more ample than elsewhere, as over the open sea; and that vastness gave, and still gives, such cloudlands, such sunrises, such sunsets, as can be seen nowhere else within these isles.
Page 251 - Wood and the patches of the primeval forest; while dark green alders, and pale green reeds, stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around; while high overhead hung motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
Page 513 - If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate. The earth bare no corn; you might as well have tilled the sea, for the land was all ruined by such deeds, and it was said openly that Christ and his saints slept.