. The camp of refuge;. rom defeatedEngland to Flanders. Again, there is nothing like thepicture of the fierce Danish nature of Hereward, thesame nature that brought out in Kingsleys story thewar-song of Surturbrand the blind Viking, Herewardis come, Ahoi! he is wet with blood, when he metHereward when, landing at Bourne, he recaptured hisown homestead. Indeed, in the treatment of this eventby the two authors their difference of method is veryplainly illustrated. The Hereward of Macfarlane is amore polished knight. And who shall say which is thetruer portrait ? Let them both exist. There is roo
. The camp of refuge;. rom defeatedEngland to Flanders. Again, there is nothing like thepicture of the fierce Danish nature of Hereward, thesame nature that brought out in Kingsleys story thewar-song of Surturbrand the blind Viking, Herewardis come, Ahoi! he is wet with blood, when he metHereward when, landing at Bourne, he recaptured hisown homestead. Indeed, in the treatment of this eventby the two authors their difference of method is veryplainly illustrated. The Hereward of Macfarlane is amore polished knight. And who shall say which is thetruer portrait ? Let them both exist. There is room forboth pictures, for both characters:—for the wild, blood-thirsty, generous, and wayward Hereward of Kingsley,who would not fight at Hastings, because he would notaccept Harold as king, and yet cried out to knowwhere Edwin and Morcar fought at the battle, andscorned them as vain babies when he was told of theirunmeaning action; who went over to fight for hiscountry when there was little chance left of his success;. SILVER PENNY OF WILLIAM L. INTRODUCTION Ixvii who played with the faithful heart of his wife, as hismood and passion taught him; who came in to Williamat last; and died lighting and killing to the last: andthere is room, too, for that other Hereward of Mac-farlanes story, who earned his right to championshipby fighting by the side of Harold at Hastings; who kepton the struggle because he would not give in so longas there was a chance; who lived the life of the times,and died the death of one who had earned his is room for both heroes and both stories, andhistory and literature claim them for the light theyshed upon a glorious page of Englands history. The author of this book was born in Scotland,and died as a poor brother of Charterhouse in was a voluminous writer, but his only thoroughpiece of work is the Civil and Military History of England,which he contributed to Knights Pictorial History, andwhich has been reprinted with additions once o
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