. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. than theeye of gratitude, and the Saxon lady even in that Aceldama knewher Harold. The kings mother now sought the victorious Norman, andbegged the dead body of her son. But William at first answeredin his wrath and the hardness of his heart that a man who hadbeen false to his word and his religion should have no othersepulcher than the sand of the shore. He added, with a sneer,Harold mounted guard on the coast while he was alive, he maycontinue his guard now he is dead. The taunt was an uninten-tional eulogy; a
. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. than theeye of gratitude, and the Saxon lady even in that Aceldama knewher Harold. The kings mother now sought the victorious Norman, andbegged the dead body of her son. But William at first answeredin his wrath and the hardness of his heart that a man who hadbeen false to his word and his religion should have no othersepulcher than the sand of the shore. He added, with a sneer,Harold mounted guard on the coast while he was alive, he maycontinue his guard now he is dead. The taunt was an uninten-tional eulogy; and a grave washed by the spray of the Sussexwaves would have been the noblest burial-place for the martyr ofSaxon freedom. But Harolds mother was urgent in her lamenta-tions and her prayers; the conqueror relented: like Achilles, hegave up the dead body of his fallen foe to a parents supplications,and the remains of King Harold were deposited with regal honorsin Waltham Abbey. On Christmas day in the same year William the Conqueror wascrowned at London king of England. [ KING JOHN AND THE DAUPHIN AT THE BATTLE OF POITIERS Battles, Volume One, Chapter Twelve
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