The Paladins of Edwin the Great

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Sir Clements R. Markham

PREFACE

PART I

PART II

PART III

EPILOGUE

THE WOLF PATROL

THE GOLDEN GIRDLE

Porlor and his Companion Kidnapped by Sea–thieves

THE PALADINS
OF
EDWIN THE GREAT

THE PALADINS
OF
EDWIN THE GREAT


BY

SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, K.C.B.


NEW EDITION

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1908

First published September 1896.
Reprinted August 1901. New Edition September 1908.

CONTENTS

  PAGE
Preface 1

PART I.—HOME

CHAP.
1. Stillingfleet 13
2. Alca 22
3. Aldby 40
4. York and the Deiran Frontier 54
5. Kidnapped 66
6. Mystacon 77

PART II.—EXILE

1. Fallen Rome 95
2. In Bondage at Rome 108
3. The Glories of the East 126
4. A Son of Alaric 141
5. Ujjayani 157
6. Iran 181
7. The Rescue of Sivel 194

PART III.—WORK

1. The Story of Augustine 213
2. Home Again 230
3. Death of Alca 248
4. Edwin 270
5. Baptism 296
6. The Great Bretwalda 315
7. The End 331
 
Epilogue 344

ILLUSTRATIONS
By Ralph Peacock

Porlor and his Companions kidnapped by Sea–thieves Frontispiece
Dancing round the Sacred Ash To face page  14
Princess Alca telling Stories to the Boys "     "       46
Mystacon attacked by his Boy Captives "     "    104
Coelred and Porlor in Egypt "     "    144
Coelred and Porlor on their Way to the Wells "     "    158
Death of Mystacon "     "    206
The Young Warriors presented to Ethelfrith "     "    244
Lilla saves the King's Life "     "    304
King Edwin, Coelred, and Porlor slain "     "    338

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