A PRINCE OF CORNWALL:
A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina ofWessex;
by Charles W. Whistler.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. HOW OWEN OF CORNWALLWANDERED TO SUSSEX, AND WHY HE BIDED THERE.
CHAPTER II. HOW ALDRED THE THANE KEPTHIS FAITH, AND OWEN FLED WITH OSWALD.
CHAPTER III. HOW KING INA'S FEASTWAS MARRED, AND OF A VOW TAKEN BY OSWALD.
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE LADY ELFRIDASPOKE WITH OSWALD, AND OF THE MEETING WITH GERENT.
CHAPTER V. HOW OSWALD FELL INTO BADHANDS, AND FARED EVILLY, ON THE QUANTOCKS.
CHAPTER VI. HOW OSWALD HAD AN UNEASYVOYAGE AND A PERILOUS LANDING AT ITS END.
CHAPTER VII. HOW OSWALD CROSSED THEDYFED CLIFFS, AND MET WITH FRIENDS.
CHAPTER VIII. HOW OSWALD LOST AHUNT, AND FOUND SOMEWHAT STRANGE IN CAERAU WOODS.
CHAPTER IX. WHY IT WAS NOT GOOD FOROWEN TO SLEEP IN THE MOONLIGHT.
CHAPTER X. HOW THE EASTDEAN MANORS ANDSOMEWHAT MORE PASSED FROM OSWALD TO ERPWALD.
CHAPTER XI. HOW ERPWALD FELL FROMCHEDDAR CLIFFS; AND OF ANOTHER WARNING.
CHAPTER XII. OF THE MESSAGE BROUGHTBY JAGO, AND A MEETING IN DARTMOOR.
CHAPTER XIII. HOW OSWALD AND HOWELDARED THE SECRET OF THE MENHIR, AND MET A WIZARD.
CHAPTER XIV. HOW OSWALD FOUND WHATHE SOUGHT, AND RODE HOMEWARD WITH NONA THE PRINCESS.
CHAPTER XV. HOW ERPWALD SAW HIS FIRSTFIGHT ON HIS WEDDING DAY.
CHAPTER XVI. OF MATTERS OF RANSOM,AND OF FORGIVENESS ASKED AND GRANTED.
CHAPTER XVII. HOW OSWALD FOUND AHOME, AND OF THE LAST PERIL OF OWEN THE PRINCE.
NOTES.
PREFACE.
A few words of preface may save footnotes to a story which dealswith the half-forgotten days when the power of a British prince hadyet to be reckoned with by the Wessex kings as they slowly andsteadily pushed their frontier westward.
The authority for the historical basis of the story is theAnglo-Saxon Chronicle, which gives A.D. 710 as the year of thedefeat of Gerent, king of the West Welsh, by Ina of Wessex and hiskinsman Nunna. This date is therefore approximately that of theevents of the tale.
With regard to the topography of the Wessex frontier involved,although it practically explains itself in the course of the story,it may be as well to remind a reader that West Wales was the lastBritish kingdom south of the Severn Sea, the name being, of course,given by Wessex men to distinguish it from the Welsh principalitiesin what we now call Wales, to their north. In the days of Ina itcomprised Cornwall and the present Devon and also the half ofSomerset westward of the north and south line of the river Parrettand Quantock Hills. Practically this old British "Dyvnaint"represented the ancient Roman province of Damnonia, shrinking as itwas under successive advances of the Saxons from the boundary whichit once had along the Mendips and Selwood Forest. Ina's victoryover Gerent set the Dyvnaint frontier yet westward, to the line ofthe present coun                        
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