Star of Mercia Historical Tales of Wales And the Marches
Star of Mercia Historical Tales of Wales And the Marches
Blanche Devereux
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Earl Tostig stood before the empty hearth, clanking ever at the golden chain about his neck. At the feet of his mother, upon a stool, sat Harold, holding on his knee the child Haco Sweynson. " Stirs she yet ? " said Lady Gytha. " Nay, not yet, " Tostig answered. I shut mine eyes, for his harsh tones jarred and sickened me. " Was it Algive ? " she said, right mournfully. 102 EARL SWEYN THE NITHING " Has this woman once again brought my Sweyn to nought ? " " Lady mother, " spake Earl Harold, " I ...was, as ye know, at Dartmouth town, when, at dead of night, came one of my men to me. In a dark wynd, he said, armed men set upon him and held him fast, and one, whose voice seemed the voice of Sweyn, gave into his arms this child, son of Sweyn Godwin- son, and bade him take him thence unto me, or be slain where he stood. * And look thou beneath the shed of Oswald the shipman, by his wharfside, ' quoth he that might be Sweyn, * and there wilt thou behold more which beareth on this matter. * My man and his fellows sought the sheds of Oswald, and lo !
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