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  THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.

  by

  JOHN BOWLING

  Author of "Brailsford: A Tale of West Riding Life," etc.

  London:Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Leeds: Henry Walker, Briggate.

  Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury

  SAXON AND VIKING. "THE CURSE OF SKULD BE UPON THEE,TRAITOR!"]

  CONTENTS.

  I. ETHEL

  II. STORM CLOUDS

  III. TRAITORS IN COUNCIL

  IV. DEFEAT

  V. DESPERATE RESOLVES

  VI. BARON VIGNEAU

  VII. ALICE DE MONTFORT

  VIII. VILLAINS PLOTTING

  IX. VILLAINS OUTWITTED

  X. A FRUITLESS EMBASSY

  XI. OSWALD'S DEFENCE OF HIS CASTLE

  XII. ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN

  XIII. BARON VIGNEAU BALKED OF HIS REVENGE

  XIV. THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT

  XV. OUTLAWS AND WOLFSHEADS

  XVI. SIGURD THE VIKING

  XVII. EVIL COUNSELLORS

  XVIII. LOVE IS STRONGER THAN HATE

  XIX. ALICE DE MONTFORT AND THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN

  XX. WAR'S VICISSITUDES

  XXI. VIKING CHIEF AND SAXON MAIDEN

  XXII. A VIKING'S LOVE

  XXIII. A VILLAIN DEMANDS HIS WAGES

  XXIV. THE TRYST

  XXV. BADGER CRACKS THE NORMAN'S PATE

  XXVI. SAXON AND VIKING AT THE SWORD'S POINT

  XXVII. JEANNETTE AND WULFHERE; OR LOVE'S COMEDIES

  XXVIII. A GRIM TEMPLE, A GRIM PRIEST, AND A SAD HEART

  XXIX. EDGAR ATHELING

  XXX. PRINCE AND PARASITE

  XXXI. PRINCE AND VIKING

  XXXII. BADGER ON THE ALERT

  XXXIII. DOG ROBS DOG

  XXXIV. WILD DARING OF SIGURD THE VIKING

  XXXV. THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT

  XXXVI. LOVERS PLOTTING

  XXXVII. THE JOUST: SAXON AND NORMAN

  XXXVIII. THE SAXONS' REVENGE

  XXXIX. BEWARE THE VIKING

  XL. THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN

  XLI. NOBILITY IN CONTRAST

  XLII. VIKINGS ALL! AN OLD TIME SAGA

  XLIII. THE CONQUEROR CONQUERED

  XLIV. THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS

  XLV. SUNSHINE HAS ITS SHADOWS

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  SAXON AND VIKING. "THE CURSE OF SKULD BE UPON THEE, TRAITOR!"

  ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.

  THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT.

  NOTE.

  From "Smith's History of Old Yorkshire" we learn that one Arthur Claphamin the year 1066 was possessed of several hides of land near Lambeth inSurrey, and also of the domain of Clapham in Yorkshire. But by opposingthe Conqueror he lost his lands in the South of England. He then fledinto the wilds of Craven in Yorkshire, and built a stronghold, on thebrow of Ingleboro', (the remains of which are still visible) and hefounded the village of Clapham in the valley beneath. In 1068, however,the said Arthur by marrying a daughter of Robert, Earl ofNorthumberland, was restored to the confidence and favour of William,and had lands granted to him in Lonsdale.

  THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS

  (_From the Monastic Chronicles of ----._)