قراءة كتاب The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

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The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

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Ingledew C J Davison

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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class="i1">Grief seized the warrior's heart, to see

In dust young Edwy laid;

And stretch'd by brave Hermanrick's side

Fair Athelgiva dead.

But on the holy cross he swore

A brave revenge to take,

On Denmark's proud and bloody sons,

For Athelgiva's sake.

This vow in Kenwurth's glorious field

The gallant earl did pay;

When Alfred's better star prevail'd,

And England had her day.

That day the Dane full dearly paid

The price of lovers' blood:

That day in Hubba's cloven helm

The Saxon javelin stood.

The bodies of the hapless three

A single grave contains;

And in the choir, with dirges due,

Are laid their cold remains.

Lord Ardolph on his children's tomb

Inscribed th' applauding verse;

And long the monks, in gothic rhyme,

Their story did rehearse.

And often pointing to the skies,

The cloister'd maids would cry,

"To those bright realms, in bloom of youth,

Did Athelgiva fly."

THE BATTLE OF CUTON MOORE.

In the year 1138, David, king of Scotland, invaded the north of England with a numerous army, in aid of the claim of the empress Matilda, his niece, against king Stephen. The fury of his massacres and ravages enraged the northern barons, who assembled an army and encamped near Northallerton. On Monday the 22nd of August, 1138, the standard was raised on Cowton Moor, three miles north of Northallerton, and after a severe contest the Scots were defeated and ten thousand of their number slain; the rest, with king David and prince Henry his son, retreated with difficulty to Carlisle. This engagement is sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, but generally the Battle of the Standard, from a long pole,

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