Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris (good inspirational books .TXT) ๐
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AND GOLDILIND THE FAIR
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. OF THE KING OF OAKENREALM, AND HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILD.
CHAPTER II. OF THE KING'S SON.
CHAPTER III. OF THE KING OF MEADHAM AND HIS DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER IV. OF THE MAIDEN GOLDILIND.
CHAPTER V. GOLDILIND COMES TO GREENHARBOUR.
CHAPTER VI. HOW ROLF THE MARSHAL DREAMS A DREAM AND COMES TO THE CASTLE.
CHAPTER VII. HOW CHRISTOPHER WENT A JOURNEY INTO THE WILD-WOOD.
CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTOPHER COMES TO THE TOFTS.
CHAPTER IX. SQUIRE SIMON COMES BACK TO OAKENHAM. THE EARL MARSHAL TAKEN
CHAPTER X. OF CHRISTOPHER AT THE TOFTS.
CHAPTER XI. HOW CHRISTOPHER CAME TO LITTLEDALE TO ABIDE THERE A WHILE.
CHAPTER XII. OF GOLDILIND IN THE MAY MORNING AT GREENHARBOUR.
CHAPTER XIII. OF GOLDILIND IN THE GARTH.
CHAPTER XIV. GOLDILIND GOES FREE.
CHAPTER XV. OF GOLDILIND IN THE WILD-WOOD.
CHAPTER XVI. WHAT GOLDILIND FOUND IN THE WOOD.
CHAPTER XVII. GOLDILIND COMES BACK TO GREENHARBOUR.
CHAPTER XVIII. EARL GEOFFREY SPEAKS WITH GOLDILIND.
CHAPTER XIX. EARL GEOFFREY SPEAKETH WITH CHRISTOPHER.
CHAPTER XX. OF THE WEDDING OF CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND.
CHAPTER XXI. OF THE WEDDING OF THOSE TWAIN.
CHAPTER XXII. OF THE WOODLAND BRIDE-CHAMBER.
CHAPTER XXIII. THEY FALL IN WITH FRIENDS.
CHAPTER XXIV. THEY TAKE COUNSEL AT LITTLEDALE.
CHAPTER XXV. NOW THEY ALL COME TO THE TOFTS.
CHAPTER XXVI. OF THE KING OF OAKENREALM.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF THE HUSTING OF THE TOFTS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE HOSTING IN HAZELDALE.
CHAPTER XXIX. TIDINGS COME TO HAZELDALE.
CHAPTER XXX. OF THE FIELD THAT WAS SET IN THE HOLM OF HAZELDALE.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE BATTLE ON THE HOLM.
CHAPTER XXXII. OF GOLDILIND AND CHRISTOPHER.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A COUNCIL OF CAPTAINS: THE HOST COMES TO BROADLEES
CHAPTER XXXIV. BATTLE BEFORE WOODWALL.
CHAPTER XXXV. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE AND AN EVIL DEED.
CHAPTER XXXVI. KING CHRISTOPHER COMES TO OAKENHAM.
CHAPTER XXXVII. OF CHILD CHRISTOPHER'S DEALINGS WITH HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF MATTERS OF MEADHAM.
Of old there was a land which was so much a woodland, that a minstrel thereof said it that a squirrel might go from end to end, and all about, from tree to tree, and never touch the earth: therefore was that land called Oakenrealm.
The lord and king thereof was a stark man, and so great a warrior that in his youth he took no delight in aught else save battle and tourneys. But when he was hard on forty years old, he came across a daughter of a certain lord, whom he had vanquished, and his eyes bewrayed him into longing, so that he gave back to the said lord the havings he had conquered of him that he might lay the maiden in his kingly bed. So he brought her home with him to Oakenrealm and wedded her.
Tells the tale that he rued not his bargain, but loved her so dearly that for a year round he wore no armour, save when she bade him play in the tilt-yard for her desport and pride.
So wore the days till she went with child and was near her time, and then it betid that three kings who marched on Oakenrealm banded them together against him, and his lords and thanes cried out on him to lead them to battle, and it behoved him to do as they would.
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