| Preface. | |
| Chapter 1: | The Coming Of The Vikings. |
| Chapter 2: | Olaf The King. |
| Chapter 3: | The Breaking Of London Bridge. |
| Chapter 4: | Earl Wulfnoth Of Sussex. |
| Chapter 5: | How Redwald Fared At Penhurst. |
| Chapter 6: | Sexberga The Thane's Daughter. |
| Chapter 7: | The Fight At Leavenheath. |
| Chapter 8: | The White Lady Of Wormingford Mere. |
| Chapter 9: | The Treachery Of Edric Streone. |
| Chapter 10: | The Flight From London. |
| Chapter 11: | The Taking Of The Queen. |
| Chapter 12: | Among Friends. |
| Chapter 13: | Jealousy. |
| Chapter 14: | The Last Great Battle. |
| Chapter 15: | The Shadow Of Edric Streone. |
| Chapter 16: | By Wormingford Mere. |
| Notes. |
No English chronicler mentions the presence of King Olaf theSaint in England; but the two churches dedicated to him at eitherend of London Bridge, where his greatest deed was wrought, testifyto the gratitude of the London citizens towards the viking chiefwho rescued their city from the Danes, and brought back the king oftheir own race towards whom their loyalty was so unswerving.
The deeds of King Olaf recorded in this story of his kinsman aretherefore from the Norse "Saga of King Olaf the Holy," and thevarious incidents are assigned as nearly as may be to their placein the sequence of events given from the death of Swein to theaccession of Cnut, in the contemporary Anglo-SaxonChronicle, which is our most reliable authority for theperiod.
The place where King Olaf fought his seventh battle,"Ringmereheath in Ulfkyl's land," is doubtful. To have localizedit, therefore, on a traditional battlefield in Suffolk, where amound and field names point to a severe forgotten fight in the linewhich a southern invader would take between Colchester and Sudbury,may be pardonable for the purposes of Redwald's story.
With regard to other historic incidents in the tale, some arefrom the Danish "K