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    Danes, Saxons and Normans or, Stories of our ancestors
    Danes, Saxons and Normans or, Stories of our ancestors
    Danes, Saxons and Normans or, Stories of our ancestors
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    Danes, Saxons and Normans or, Stories of our ancestors

    By John G. (John George) Edgar

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      Danes, Saxons and Normans or, Stories of our ancestors - John G. (John George) Edgar

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      Title: Danes, Saxons and Normans

             or, Stories of our ancestors

      Author: John G. Edgar

      Release Date: August 16, 2012 [EBook #40513]

      Language: English

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      DANES, SAXONS, AND NORMANS;

      or,

      Stories of our Ancestors.

      by

      J. G. EDGAR,

      AUTHOR OF BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN, CAVALIERS AND ROUNDHEADS, ETC.

      LONDON:

      S. O. BEETON, 248, STRAND.

      1863.

      PREFACE.

      In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell in a popular way the story of the Norman Conquest, and to give an idea of the principal personages who figured in England at the period when that memorable event took place; and I have endeavoured, I hope not without some degree of success, to treat the subject in a popular and picturesque style, without any sacrifice of historic truth.

      With a view of rendering the important event which I have attempted to illustrate, more intelligible to the reader, I have commenced by showing how the Normans under Rolfganger forced a settlement in the dominions of Charles the Simple, whilst Alfred the Great was struggling with the Danes in England, and have recounted the events which led to a connexion between the courts of Rouen and Westminster, and to the invasion of England by William the Norman.

      It has been truly observed that the history of the Conquest is at once so familiar at first sight, that it appears superfluous to multiply details, so difficult to realize on examination, that a writer feels himself under the necessity of investing with importance many particulars previously regarded as uninteresting, and that the defeat at Hastings was not the catastrophe over which the curtain drops to close the Saxon tragedy, but the first scene in a new act of the continuous drama. I have therefore continued my narrative for many years after the fall of Harold and the building of Battle Abbey, and have traced the Conqueror's career from the coast of Sussex to the banks of the Humber and the borders of the Tweed.

      For the same reason I have narrated the quarrels which convulsed the Conqueror's own family—have related how son fought against father, and brother against brother—and have indicated the circumstances which, after a fierce war of succession in England, resulted in the peaceful coronation of Henry Plantagenet, and the establishment of that great house whose chiefs were so long the pride of England and the terror of her foes.

      J. G. E.

      ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.

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