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Title: Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune

Author: A. D. Crake

Release Date: August 27, 2004 [EBook #13305]

Language: English

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ALFGAR THE DANE OR THE SECOND CHRONICLE OF AESCENDUNE:

A Tale of the Days of Edmund Ironside

by the Rev. A. D. Crake.

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. THE DIARY OF FATHER CUTHBERT.

CHAPTER II. "ALFGAR, SON OF ANLAF."

CHAPTER III. THE NIGHT OF ST. BRICE.

CHAPTER IV. THE DANES IN WESSEX.

CHAPTER V. THE TRACKS IN THE FOREST.

CHAPTER VI. THROUGH SUFFERING TO GLORY.

CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON.

CHAPTER VIII. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARY.

CHAPTER IX. THE CAMP OF THE DANES.

CHAPTER X. CARISBROOKE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER XI. THE GLEEMAN.

CHAPTER XII. THE MONASTERY OF ABINGDON.

CHAPTER XIII. THE CITY OF DORCHESTER.

CHAPTER XIV. THE SON AND THE FAVOURITE.

CHAPTER XV. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARY AT CLIFFTON.

CHAPTER XVI. THE FEAST OF CHRISTMAS.

CHAPTER XVII. FOR HEARTH AND HOME.

CHAPTER XVIII. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XIX. THE ROYAL DEATHBED.

CHAPTER XX. THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT.

CHAPTER XXI. EDMUND AND CANUTE.

CHAPTER XXII. SMOOTHER THAN OIL.

CHAPTER XXIII. WHO HATH DONE THIS DEED?

CHAPTER XXIV. THE ORDEAL.

CHAPTER XXV. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARY.

PREFACE.

The tale now presented to the indulgence of the public is the second
of a series of tales, each complete in itself, which, as stated in the
preface to the first of the series, have been told to the senior boys
of a large school, in order to secure their interest in historical
characters, and to illustrate great epochs in human affairs by the aid
of fiction.

Yet the Author has distinctly felt that fiction must always, in such
cases, be subordinate to truth, and that it is only legitimately used
as a vehicle of instruction when it fills up the gaps in the outline,
without contradicting them in any respect, or interfering with th