The Last of the Vikings
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Chapter 1 ETHEL.
Chapter 2 STORM CLOUDS.
Chapter 3 TRAITORS IN COUNCIL.
Chapter 4 DEFEAT.
Chapter 5 DESPERATE RESOLVES.
Chapter 6 BARON VIGNEAU.
Chapter 7 ALICE DE MONTFORT.
Chapter 8 VILLAINS PLOTTING.
Chapter 9 VILLAINS OUTWITTED.
Chapter 10 A FRUITLESS EMBASSY.
Chapter 11 OSWALD'S DEFENCE OF HIS CASTLE.
Chapter 12 ALICE DE MONTFORT SETS FREE THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.
Chapter 13 BARON VIGNEAU BAULKED OF HIS REVENGE.
Chapter 14 THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN CONFRONTS DE MONTFORT.
Chapter 15 OUTLAWS AND WOLFSHEADS.
Chapter 16 SIGURD THE VIKING.
Chapter 17 EVIL COUNSELLORS.
Chapter 18 LOVE IS STRONGER THAN HATE.
Chapter 19 ALICE DE MONTFORT AND THE SAXON CHIEFTAIN.
Chapter 20 WAR'S VICISSITUDES.
Chapter 21 VIKING CHIEF AND SAXON MAIDEN.
Chapter 22 A VIKING'S LOVE.
Chapter 23 A VILLAIN DEMANDS HIS WAGES.
Chapter 24 THE TRYST.
Chapter 25 BADGER CRACKS THE NORMAN'S PATE.
Chapter 26 SAXON AND VIKING AT THE SWORD'S POINT.
Chapter 27 JEANNETTE AND WULFHERE, OR LOVE'S COMEDIES.
Chapter 28 A GRIM TEMPLE, A GRIM PRIEST, AND A SAD HEART.
Chapter 29 EDGAR ATHELING.
Chapter 30 PRINCE AND PARASITE.
Chapter 31 PRINCE AND VIKING.
Chapter 32 BADGER ON THE ALERT.
Chapter 33 DOG ROBS DOG.
Chapter 34 WILD DARING OF SIGURD THE VIKING.
Chapter 35 THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT.
Chapter 36 LOVERS PLOTTING.
Chapter 37 THE JOUST, SAXON AND NORMAN.
Chapter 38 THE SAXON'S REVENGE.
Chapter 39 BEWARE THE VIKING.
Chapter 40 THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN.
Chapter 41 NOBILITY IN CONTRAST.
Chapter 42 VIKINGS ALL! AN OLD TIME SAGA.
Chapter 43 THE CONQUEROR CONQUERED.
Chapter 44 THE LAST OF THE VIKINGS.
Chapter 45 SUNSHINE HAS ITS SHADOWS.
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Chapter 11 OSWALD'S DEFENCE OF HIS CASTLE.

"Cry 'Havock!' and let slip the dogs of war."-Shakespeare.

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In the meantime, the Normans had made diligent preparation for an assault on the castle. Now the castle could not be described as a very formidable stronghold, or one designed to withstand a regular siege. It had been built mainly to resist the incursions of the Scots, who perio

             
            

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