The Last of the Vikings
img img The Last of the Vikings img Chapter 35 THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT.
35
img
  /  1
img

Chapter 35 THE SAXON DEVIL AND THE WICKED ABBOT.

"When night

Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons

Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."

Milton.

* * *

Most humiliating and distressing to us Saxon monks was the state of lax morality in which these foreign monks lived. One of the worst vices imported into England by the Normans was that of uncleanness, a vice practical

            
            

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022