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- Yorkshire legends and traditions
Yorkshire legends and traditions
Author:
Thomas Parkinson
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 14 Ceernfce ani Cabttiona 0f ' Those persons were lodged at Cawood who were in charge of the ships, but many of the Danes came by way of Holderness ; they had
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spoiled the country till they came near the city ; the ships also came against it. The king who then held the country was, upon the day on which they came upon the city, gone into the woods. But the other king was nigh, and he was deprived of the keys. When the Danes assailed them they defended themselves a little, but their defence was short, for the Danes gained the battle. Then the city was quickly taken, and there were a great many people slain. Osbrith, the king, was slain there. Buern, his enemy, was avenged.' Death Of Ella, King Of Bernicia, Near York. At the taking of York, at the death of Osbert, Ella of Bernicia, his late rival, but now ally against the Danes, was absent from the city on a hunting expedition. The chronicler, as translated by the Rev. Joseph Stephen- son, in the ' Church Historians of England,' shall again tell his own story of the event : ' Ella was in a forest ; he had there taken four bisons. He was seated at dinner ; he heard a man sound a bell ; he held a little bell in his hand ; it sounded as clear as a clock. The king begged before he came that he might have something to eat, for he asked for it. As the king was sitting at his repast, he said to a knight, " We have done well to-day ; we have taken all we have hunted — four bisons and six kids ; many times we have hunted worse." The blind man, who sat at a distance, heard him ; then he said aEutrn ©taforu of Boitftslji. 15 word which was true : " If you have taken so much in the wood, you have lost all this country; the Danes performed better exploits who have taken York, and who have killed many barons. Osbreth's enemies have ...
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ISBN-13:
9780217656610
ISBN-10:
0217656617
Publication Date:
8/16/2009
Pages:
156
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