A Popular History of England - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1443292478 ISBN 13: 9781443292474

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... DANISH eRA A. D. 1016 TO 1042. SAXON LINe ReSTOreD A. D. 1042 TO 1066. The story of an Earl--The Danish King--The royal gifts--Canute's verses--The pilgrimage--Relics--The King's death--The disputed Crown--The hunting King--The Exile's return--A Sad Story--The last of the Danes--The Earl and the King--Quarrels--The Rose among Thorns--The Queen's ordeal--Emma's death--Unwelcome Visitors--New Fashions--A Norman Count's visit and its consequences--Godwin an Exile--The Duke in England--The return--The death of Godwin--The forgotten Promise--The Shipwreck--The Oath--The Tapestried history--The Confessor's Death bed--His Tomb. Canute was not one who loved bloodshedding for its own sake; and, although he began his reign with some severity, he by degrees assumed a milder tone, and succeeded in gaining a considerable share of his subjects' good-will. After settling the affairs of his new dominions, he returned for a while to his own land of Denmark, where disturbances of a serious nature had broken out. Of course he took with him the best of the English soldiers, of whose prowess in battle he had had some experience: and one of the THE STORY OF GODWIN. 165 most skilful of his generals at this time, was the young earl Godwin, whose history may as well.be told here. Canute had a nephew, named Ulfa, and a few years before the date of the present chapter, in a battle with Edmund Ironside, he had pursued some English fugitives into a wood so eagerly, that he lost his way, and spent the whole night in trying to find it. Next day the first person he saw was a country boy, called Godwin, of whom he asked the road to the sea shore, where he hoped to find the ships of Canute. The boy told him that he was some way from the sea and that not only did the path to it lie through...

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• ISBN 10: 1443292478
• ISBN 13: 9781443292474
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