camping-field

Updated: May 5, 2025

And before midday there were fifty well-armed men in the old camping-field outside the town, and Hereward haranguing them in words of fire. A chill came over them, nevertheless, when he told them that he must return at once to Flanders. "But it must be," he said. He had promised his good lord and sovereign, Baldwin of Flanders, and his word of honor he must keep.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English