CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Of Feargus and King Penda[1]
II.Of Feargus and Torfrida[6]
III.The Battle by Trent Water[18]
IV.The Flight[29]
V.The Parting of Feargus and Torfrida[41]
VI.The Fall of Feargus[47]
VII.Of the Meeting of Feargus and Osbert[55]
VIII.The Dead Hero of the Winwidfield[63]
IX.Of the Fate of Feargus[74]
X.Of the Woodsman of Sherwood[81]
XI.Of Osbert and Torfrida[85]
XII.The Outlaws of Sherwood[93]
XIII.Awake![99]
XIV.The Meeting in the Forest[101]
XV.Of the Villainy of Osbert[107]
XVI.Of the Burning of the Hall of Edmund[119]
XVII.The Way to Alban[127]
XVIII.How they lost their Way in the Greenwood[138]
XIX.Their Adventures among the North English[149]
XX.How Feargus fell among Thieves[157]
XXI.How they fared in the Wild Country[164]
XXII.How they fell among Foes[174]
XXIII.How Torfrida was stolen[186]
XXIV.Of the Castle in the Pentlands[199]
XXV.Of the Feast in Siegfried’s Hall[206]
XXVI.The Rescue[220]
XXVII.The Fight in Fenland[227]
XXVIII.The History cometh to an End[236]
England in Penda’s Day[237]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Feargus stepped to the side of Edwy and drew his sword, shouting, “I am your captain: stand back, Mercians!”[Frontispiece]
So Feargus put his hands between the hands of Penda and became his manFacing page[4]
Feargus thrust his body through the opening and held Torfrida in his arms and kissed her and she him”[44]
“Now,” said Penda, “cometh death, and I shall die in the best company that ever I was in””[72]
Feargus wrenched the sword from Osbert’s hand and struck him to the earth”[116]
The feet of Feargus sank deep in the snow at every step and made him weary, but he fared on”[170]
Then Feargus thought that Torfrida was like to die, for she fainted, and lay for long as one in death”[178]
Torfrida drew forth a burning faggot and then stepped to the windows and set the hangings alight”[190]