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Updated: June 14, 2025
There remain to this day, in Grimsthorpe Park by Bourne, the descendants of the very deer which Earl Leofric and Earl Algar, and after them Hereward the outlaw, hunted in the Bruneswald. Deep-tangled forest filled the lower claylands, swarming with pheasant, roe, badger, and more wolves than were needed.
Even the priests, save those immediately about the court, forgot, in the exigency of the time, their ancient and deep-rooted dislike to Godwin's House; they remembered, at least, that Harold had never, in foray or feud, plundered a single convent; or in peace, and through plot, appropriated to himself a single hide of Church land; and that was more than could have been said of any other earl of the age even of Leofric the Holy.
For I should have surely won heaven, you know, if I had killed the devil." After much beating, about, Leofric got from Martin the whole tragedy. And when he heard it, he burst out weeping. "O Hereward, Hereward! O knightly honor! O faith and troth and gratitude, and love in return for such love as might have tamed lions, and made tyrants mild!
The king, who had not sufficient vigour directly to oppose his progress, knew of no other expedient than that hazardous one, of raising him a rival in the family of Leofric, Duke of Mercia, whose son Algar was invested with the government of East Anglia, which, before the banishment of Harold, had belonged to the latter nobleman.
"God help thee, thou sinful boy!" said the Abbot. "Hereward, Hereward! Come back!" cried Brand. But the boy had spurred his horse through the gateway, and was far down the road. "Leofric, my friend," said Brand, sadly, "this is my sin, and no man's else. And heavy penance will I do for it, till that lad returns in peace." "Your sin?" "Mine, Abbot.
They had thrown up, says Leofric, a turf rampart on the island shore, and antemuralia et propugnacula, doubtless overhanging "hoardings," or scaffolds, through the floor of which they could shower down missiles. And so they awaited the attack, contenting themselves with gliding in and out of the reeds in their canoes, and annoying the builders with arrows and cross-bow bolts.
On entering, he found there a man in the prime of life, and though richly clad in embroidered gonna, and with gilt ateghar at his side, still with the loose robe, the long moustache, and the skin of the throat and right hand punctured with characters and devices, which proved his adherence to the fashions of the Saxon . And Harold's eye sparkled, for in this guest he recognized the father of Aldyth, Earl Algar, son of Leofric.
Beginning at the Dean's stall, and proceeding eastwards, the statues on the south side represent the following: Two at the summit of the Dean's stall, SS. Paul and Andrew. S. Peter, the Patron Saint. 2. Saxulf , the first Abbot. 3. Adulf , Abbot, afterwards Archbishop of York. 4. Kenulf , Abbot, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. 5. Leofric , Abbot. 6.
And there Geri and Leofric had kept house, and told sagas to each other over the beech-log fire night after night; for all Leofric's study was, says the chronicler, "to gather together for the edification of his hearers all the acts of giants and warriors out of the fables of the ancients or from faithful report, and commit them to writing, that he might keep England in mind thereof."
Onward they rode, conducted with the greatest skill and success by their guide from the Camp of Refuge, Leofric of Deeping, who entertained them by the way, when circumstances permitted, by many a story about Hereward and his merry men, each one of whom he said was a match for three Normans, while Hereward would not turn his back upon seven at once.
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