Wulfric the Weapon Thane / A Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia

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pon thane have been drawn. For the actual presence of such a close attendant on the king at his martyrdom on

, after the defeat at Thetford, the king had intended to seek safety in the church, probably at Framlingham, where the roya

Hoxne woods, and of the "gold bridge", may fi

fallen trunk; while the fact that, until the erection of the new bridge at Hoxne in 1823, no newly-married couple would cross the "gold bridge" on the way to church, for the reasons given in t

ch is given here is from Roger of Wendover. But in both versions the treachery of one Be

hronicles, but the broad outlines given by the almost contemporary Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, supplemented with a few incidents recorded in the Heimskring

homily for November 20 of the Anglo-Saxon Sarum Breviary, and is therefore

r perhaps with him, and that his name is remembered in the ancient kalendars on the same day. For describing his end as at

were in his time the two promontories that guarded the estuary, and where Yarmouth now stands were sands, growing indeed slowly, but hardly yet an island even at "low-water springs". Above Beccles perhaps the course

these pages. No useful purpose would be served by a reproduction of what are now more or