King Olaf's Kinsman<br />A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironsid by Charles W. Whistler (free novel 24 txt) 📗

strong, curved blade used as a dirk. 3 The massacre of the Danes on St. Brice's day, 1002 A.D., in which Swein's sister was killed. 4 Now Peterborough. 5 From the Heimskringla, Saga of Olaf the Saint. 6 Tribute. 7 An embodied familiar spirit. 8 According to Bede, in A.D. 418 the Romans collected and hid all the treasure in England, except some part which they took to Gaul. OElla took Anderida in 491 A.D. 9 The cold spring. 10 Mail shirt. 11 Daughter of Alfred the Great, and wife of Ethelred, Earl of Mercia. 12 The utmost term of Saxon contempt. 13 Now Canewdon. 14 The "Five Boroughs" of the old Danelagh were Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford, and Derby. 15 The work of the great Dunstan, and the first code that recognized the rights of Danish settlers. 16 This prophecy of Olaf's is recorded in the "Saga of Olaf the Saint". End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of King Olaf's Kinsman, by Charles Whistler