Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
"Alas, sir! he is the man who set free the four men at Wrokesham Bridge last night." "Set free! Are they not hanged and dead?" "We we dared not tell you. But he came upon us " "Single-handed, you cowards?" "Sir, he is not a man, but a witch or a devil. He asked us what we did there. One of our men laughed at his long neck and legs, and called him heron.
"When there were ten of you, I thought?" "Sir, as we told you, he is no mortal man, but a fiend." "Beasts, fools! Well, I have hanged this one, at least!" growled Ivo, and then rode sullenly on. "Who is this fellow?" cried he to the trembling English. "Wulfric Raher, Wulfric the Heron, of Wrokesham in Norfolk." "Aha! And I hold a manor of his," said Ivo to himself.
Who touches pike or eel, swimming or wading fowl, within these meres of mine, without my leave, I will hang him as I hanged this man, as I hanged four brothers in a row on Wrokesham bridge but yesterday." "Go to Wrokesham bridge and see," shouted a shrill cracked voice from behind the crowd. All looked round; and more than one of Ivo's men set up a yell, the hangman loudest of all.
"Look you, villains, this fellow is in league with you." A burst of abject denial followed. "Since the French, since Sir Frederick, as they call him, drove him out of his Wrokesham lands, he wanders the country, as you see: to-day here, but Heaven only knows where he will be to-morrow." "And finds, of course, a friend everywhere. Now march!" And a string of threats and curses followed.
"Go to Wrokesham!" shrieked the lean man, as he rose and showed a ridiculously long nose, neck, and legs, a type still not uncommon in the fens, a quilted leather coat, a double-bladed axe slung over his shoulder by a thong, a round shield at his back, and a pole three times as long as himself, which he dragged after him, like an unwieldy tail. "The heron! the heron!" shouted the English.
After a while, he had heard how Hereward was come again and sent round the war-arrow, and thought that a landless man could be in no better company; wherefore he had taken boat, and come across the deep fen. And there he was, if they had need of him. "Need of you?" said Hereward, who had heard of the deed at Wrokesham Bridge. "Need of a hundred like you. But this is bitter news."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking