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Updated: May 10, 2025
It may be Alliteration, the letter-rhyme or "beginning-rhyme" of Old English poetry: "Him be healfe stod hyse unweaxen, Cniht on gecampe, se full caflice." Tennyson imitates it in his "Battle of Brunanburh": "Mighty the Mercian, Hard was his hand-play, Sparing not any of Those that with Anlaf, Warriors over the Weltering waters Borne in the bark's-bosom, Drew to this island Doomed to the death."
At an almost imperceptible sign from the old cniht, the henchmen made a noiseless step nearer their master. There were not more than a dozen of them, but behind them loomed some two-score yeomen-soldiers, with a score more in the brush at their back; and the faces of all told more plainly than words what it would mean to attack them.
After his father's cowardice, such energy and dauntlessness alone " "Dauntlessness!" the old cniht snorted again. "It is the dauntlessness of the man in Father Ingulph's story, who was so much wiser than his advisers that he must try to drive the sun a new way, till it came so nigh as it nighest may to setting the world afire."
"I have done no otherwise for a sennight," the man sighed as he hurried away to snatch the tongs from a serf who was spending an unnecessary fagot upon the fire. At any other time he would have shouted at him, but it was little loud talking that was done within the walls these days. When they were left alone, the old cniht threw himself back upon the bench and covered his face with his mantle.
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