Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
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In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.
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HAROLD : THE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS — VOLUME 02
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK II.: LANFRANC THE SCHOLAR.: CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
By
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
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First published circa 1873
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BOOK II.: LANFRANC THE SCHOLAR.: CHAPTER I.
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FOUR MEALS A DAY, NOR those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretation of the daily bread for which the Saxon prayed. Four meals a day, from earl to ceorl! Happy times!
may sigh the descendant of the last, if he read these pages; partly so they were for the ceorl, but not in all things, for never sweet is the food, and never gladdening is the drink, of servitude. Inebriety, the vice of the warlike nations of the North, had not, perhaps, been the pre- eminent excess of the earlier Saxons, while yet the active and fiery Britons, and the subsequent petty wars between the kings of the Heptarchy, enforced on hardy warriors the safety of temperance; but the example of the Danes had been fatal. Those giants of the sea, like all who pass from great vicissitudes of toil and repose, from the tempest to the haven, snatched with full hands every pleasure in their reach. With much that tended permanently to elevate the character of the Saxon, they imparted much for a