grass-fen

Updated: July 22, 2026

And between the wood and the wold stood many a Danish "town," with its clusters of low straggling buildings round the holder's house, stone or mud below, and wood above; its high dikes round tiny fields; its flocks of sheep ranging on the wold; its herds of swine in the forest; and below, a more precious possession still, its herds of mares and colts, which fed with the cattle in the rich grass-fen.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English