The Last of the Vikings

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Author

Bowling, John (Novelist)

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Lindy Walsh, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087 -- Fiction

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eBook-No.

36054

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36054

Release Date

May 7, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.
2. 2.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!"
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.NOTE. — ( From the Monastic Chronicles of ——. )
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — ETHEL.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — STORM CLOUDS.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — TRAITORS IN COUNCIL.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — DEFEAT.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — DESPERATE RESOLVES.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — BARON VIGNEAU.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — ALICE DE MONTFORT.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — VILLAINS PLOTTING.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — VILLAINS OUTWITTED.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — A FRUITLESS EMBASSY.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — OSWALD'S DEFENCE OF HIS CASTLE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN. — ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — BARON VIGNEAU BAULKED OF HIS REVENGE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT. — THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — OUTLAWS AND WOLFSHEADS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — SIGURD THE VIKING.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — EVIL COUNSELLORS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — LOVE IS STRONGER THAN HATE.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — ALICE DE MONTFORT AND THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — WAR'S VICISSITUDES.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — VIKING CHIEF AND SAXON MAIDEN.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — A VIKING'S LOVE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — A VILLAIN DEMANDS HIS WAGES.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE TRYST.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — BADGER CRACKS THE NORMAN'S PATE.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — SAXON AND VIKING AT THE SWORD'S POINT.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — JEANNETTE AND WULFHERE, OR LOVE'S COMEDIES.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. — A GRIM TEMPLE, A GRIM PRIEST, AND A SAD HEART.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. — EDGAR ATHELING.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. — PRINCE AND PARASITE.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. — PRINCE AND VIKING.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. — BADGER ON THE ALERT.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. — DOG ROBS DOG.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. — WILD DARING OF SIGURD THE VIKING.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. — THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. — LOVERS PLOTTING.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. — THE JOUST, SAXON AND NORMAN.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — THE SAXON'S REVENGE.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. — BEWARE THE VIKING.
45. 45.CHAPTER XL. — THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. — NOBILITY IN CONTRAST.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. — VIKINGS ALL! AN OLD TIME SAGA.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII. — THE CONQUEROR CONQUERED.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV. — THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLV. — SUNSHINE HAS ITS SHADOWS. — THE END.
51. 51.BRAILSFORD: — A Tale of West Riding Life. — By JOHN BOWLING.

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