BY JOHN BOWLING AUTHOR OF "BRAILSFORD: A TALE OF WEST RIDING LIFE," ETC.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
NOTE.
CHAPTER I. ETHEL. "Be just and fear not. Let all thou aim'st at
CHAPTER II. STORM CLOUDS. "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome
CHAPTER III. TRAITORS IN COUNCIL. "Treason doth never prosper.
CHAPTER IV. DEFEAT.
CHAPTER V. DESPERATE RESOLVES. "Cowards die many times before
CHAPTER VI. BARON VIGNEAU. "All is lost save honour."
CHAPTER VII. ALICE DE MONTFORT. "And thus I clothe my naked
CHAPTER VIII. VILLAINS PLOTTING. "And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy." Shakespeare.
CHAPTER IX. VILLAINS OUTWITTED.
CHAPTER X. A FRUITLESS EMBASSY.
CHAPTER XI. OSWALD'S DEFENCE OF HIS CASTLE.
CHAPTER XII. ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.
CHAPTER XIII. BARON VIGNEAU BAULKED OF HIS REVENGE. "Midnight
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT. "Then
CHAPTER XV. OUTLAWS AND WOLFSHEADS. "To be forewarned is to be forearmed." Proverbial Saying.
CHAPTER XVI. SIGURD THE VIKING. "Beware Of entrance to a
CHAPTER XVII. EVIL COUNSELLORS.
CHAPTER XVIII. LOVE IS STRONGER THAN HATE. "True love's the
CHAPTER XIX. ALICE DE MONTFORT AND THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN. "Love
CHAPTER XX. WAR'S VICISSITUDES.
CHAPTER XXI. VIKING CHIEF AND SAXON MAIDEN. "He beheld A
CHAPTER XXII. A VIKING'S LOVE.
CHAPTER XXIII. A VILLAIN DEMANDS HIS WAGES. "Oh pilot! 'tis a
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRYST. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting
CHAPTER XXV. BADGER CRACKS THE NORMAN'S PATE.
CHAPTER XXVI. SAXON AND VIKING AT THE SWORD'S POINT. "Who
CHAPTER XXVII. JEANNETTE AND WULFHERE, OR LOVE'S COMEDIES.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A GRIM TEMPLE, A GRIM PRIEST, AND A SAD HEART.
CHAPTER XXIX. EDGAR ATHELING.
CHAPTER XXX. PRINCE AND PARASITE. "Eternal smiles his emptiness
CHAPTER XXXI. PRINCE AND VIKING. "This hand, to tyrants ever
CHAPTER XXXII. BADGER ON THE ALERT.
CHAPTER XXXIII. DOG ROBS DOG. "I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff." Sir Henry Wotton.
CHAPTER XXXIV. WILD DARING OF SIGURD THE VIKING. "When Greeks
CHAPTER XXXV. THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT. "When night
CHAPTER XXXVI. LOVERS PLOTTING. "Good-night, good-night;
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE JOUST, SAXON AND NORMAN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE SAXON'S REVENGE. "E'en these, when of
CHAPTER XXXIX. BEWARE THE VIKING. "O'er bog or steep, through
CHAPTER XL. THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN.
CHAPTER XLI. NOBILITY IN CONTRAST. "Shall show us how divine a thing A woman may be made." Wordsworth.
CHAPTER XLII. VIKINGS ALL! AN OLD TIME SAGA. "Sonorous metal,
CHAPTER XLIII. THE CONQUEROR CONQUERED. "Proceed my son! this
CHAPTER XLIV. THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.
CHAPTER XLV. SUNSHINE HAS ITS SHADOWS. "Man's love is of a
BRAILSFORD: A Tale of West Riding Life. By JOHN BOWLING.
Title: The Last of the Vikings
Author: John Bowling
Language: English
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THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.
