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Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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either spear nor shield, for it was to be a gathering offriends. There was to be no strife among the jovial company, the invitationsaid. The heroes went to the feast cheerful and sprightly, says the oldWelsh poet, while he, the bitter warrior, was disposing of his blades.Adorned with a wreath was the leader of the sea-drifted wolves, and ofamber was that wreath which twined about his temples. Hengist had arranged that one of his own people should sit next toeach Briton, and had told his men that when he should rise and say, takeyour knives, each Saxon should seize his knife and plunge itfinto thebreast of his British neighbor. The banquet began with much mirth and joyousness, but in the midstof it, while the Britons were reveling in the good cheer before them Hen-gist arose and repeated the fatal words. Each Saxon quickly drew his England. 113 knife, and so completely was the deadly work done, that only three of theBritish nobles escaped. From that time the Saxons set up their rule in
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ROBIN HOOD. Briton, and the rightful owners were killed or driven into the mountains inWales. Sherwood Forest.—The savage Saxons, after driving out the owners of 114 Persons and Places in Europe. the land, settled down and made themselves at home for about six hundredyears. Then it came their turn to be invaded. William of Normandy cameover from France, defeated the Saxons in the great battle of Hasting andmade himself king. But the Saxons were not murdered and driven out asthe Britons had been. The Normans held all the offices, their language wasthe only one spoken at court, and some very strict rules were made abouthunting in the forests, which William declared to be his special property.The Saxons, of course, thought all of this was very hard ; they complainedof the injustice done by the Norman office-holders, and there was much ill-will on both sides. During these troublous times, there appeared among, the Saxons adefiant young man known as Robin Hood, who became their hero and

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