algarsson

Updated: June 5, 2025

I am your nephew, Morcar Algarsson; and all is lost." As the winter ran on, other fugitives came in, mostly of rank and family. At last Edwin himself came, young and fair, like Morcar; he who should have been the Conqueror's son-in-law; for whom his true-love pined, as he pined, in vain. Where were Sweyn and his Danes? Whither should they go till he came? "To Ely," answered Hereward.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English