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Title: King Olaf's Kinsman
A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in
the Days of Ironside and Cnut

Author: Charles Whistler

Release Date: July 3, 2005 [EBook #16196]
[Date last updated: July 5, 2006]

Language: English

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KING OLAF'S KINSMAN

A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle Against the Danes
in the Days of Ironside and Cnut

by Charles W. Whistler

Preface.
Chapter 1: The Coming Of The Vikings.
Chapter 2: Olaf The King.
Chapter 3: The Breaking Of London Bridge.
Chapter 4: Earl Wulfnoth Of Sussex.
Chapter 5: How Redwald Fared At Penhurst.
Chapter 6: Sexberga The Thane's Daughter.
Chapter 7: The Fight At Leavenheath.
Chapter 8: The White Lady Of Wormingford Mere.
Chapter 9: The Treachery Of Edric Streone.
Chapter 10: The Flight From London.
Chapter 11: The Taking Of The Queen.
Chapter 12: Among Friends.
Chapter 13: Jealousy.
Chapter 14: The Last Great Battle.
Chapter 15: The Shadow Of Edric Streone.
Chapter 16: By Wormingford Mere.
Notes.

Preface.

No English chronicler mentions the presence of King Olaf the Saint
in England; but the two churches dedicated to him at either end of
London Bridge, where his greatest deed was wrought, testify to the
gratitude of the London citizens towards the viking chief who
rescued their city from the Danes, and brought back the king of
their own race towards whom their loyalty was so unswerving.

The deeds of King Olaf recorded in this story of his kinsman are
therefore from the Norse "Saga of King Olaf the Holy," and the
various incidents are assigned as nearly as may be to their place
in the sequence of events given from the death of Swein to the
accession of Cnut, in the contemporary Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which
is our most reliable authority for the period.

The place where King Olaf fought his seventh battle, "Ringmereheath
in Ulfkyl's land," is doubtful. To have localized it, therefore, on
a traditional battlefield in Suffolk, wh