cattle-pastures

Updated: May 29, 2025

And this is the episode of the Cornish Princess, as told by Leofric of Bourne, the cunning minstrel and warlike priest. Hereward had drunk his share at Sigtryg's wedding. Then a great home-sickness had seized him. He would go back and see the old house, and the cattle-pastures, and the meres and fens of his boyhood. He would see his widowed mother.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English