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 FATHERCUTHBERT.
CHAPTER II. "ALFGAR, SON OFANLAF."
CHAPTER III. THE NIGHT OF ST.BRICE.
CHAPTER IV. THE DANES IN WESSEX.
CHAPTER V. THE TRACKS IN THEFOREST.
CHAPTER VI. THROUGH SUFFERING TOGLORY.
CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON.
CHAPTER VIII. FATHER CUTHBERT'SDIARY.
CHAPTER IX. THE CAMP OF THEDANES.
CHAPTER X. CARISBROOKE IN THE ELEVENTHCENTURY.
CHAPTER XI. THE GLEEMAN.
CHAPTER XII. THE MONASTERY OFABINGDON.
CHAPTER XIII. THE CITY OFDORCHESTER.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SON AND THEFAVOURITE.
CHAPTER XV. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARYAT CLIFFTON.
CHAPTER XVI. THE FEAST OFCHRISTMAS.
CHAPTER XVII. FOR HEARTH ANDHOME.
CHAPTER XVIII. FATHER CUTHBERT'SDIARY.
CHAPTER XIX. THE ROYALDEATHBED.
CHAPTER XX. THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT.
CHAPTER XXI. EDMUND AND CANUTE.
CHAPTER XXII. SMOOTHER THANOIL.
CHAPTER XXIII. WHO HATH DONE THISDEED?
CHAPTER XXIV. THE ORDEAL.
CHAPTER XXV. FATHER CUTHBERT'SDIARY.
PREFACE.
The tale now presented to the indulgence of the public is thesecond of a series of tales, each complete in itself, which, asstated in the preface to the first of the series, have been told tothe senior boys of a large school, in order to secure theirinterest in historical characters, and to illustrate great epochsin human affairs by the aid of fiction.
Yet the Author has distinctly felt that fiction must always, insuch cases, be subordinate to truth, and that it is onlylegitimately used as a vehicle of instruction when it fills up thegaps in the outline, without contradicting them in any respect, orinterfering with their due order and sequence.
Therefore he has attempted in every instance to consult suchoriginal authorities as lay within his reach, and has done his bestto present an honest picture of the times.
The period selected on the present occasion is full of thedeepest interest. The English and the Danish invaders of their soilwere struggling desperately for the possession of England--astruggle aggravated by religious bitterness, and by the sanguinarynature of the Danish creed.
The reign of Ethelred the Unready, from his accession, after themurder of his innocent brother, until the scene depicted in thenineteenth chapter of the tale, was a tragedy ever deepening. Itsdetails will seem dark enough as read herein, but                        
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