King Alfred of England - Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 25

in every one of what he had earned the victory. In one of these
battles that he had killed, according to the traditional history four hundred
and seventy men, in one day, with his/her his/her own hand.

Five hundred years after his/her death, King Henry the Secondo, having
spoken to a British and ancient bard in which the disposition of body of Arthur has buried
the abbey of Glastonbury, and that the stain was marked from some small
pyramids erected near it, and that the body would be found in an ill-mannered
coffin made of a dug oak, search ordinate to be done. The ballads
and histories that had been then, for many centuries that circulate
in the whole England, narrating and praising the enterprises of King Arturo, it had
the so wide datum a fame, that the great interest was felt in the recovery
and the identification of his/her rests. The researchers founded the
pyramids in the cemetery of the abbey. They dug among them, and it came
for a long time to a stone. Under of this stone a lead cross was, with the
registration in Latin, "Here Lies it Buried The Body Of Great King
ARTHUR." Still going down under this, they came for a long time, to the
depth of sixteen feet from the surface, to a great coffin done of the
trunk of a tree of oak, and inside of him a human skeleton was of unusual
ransom. The skull was very great, and it showed marks of ten wounds. Nine
of them it was closed from concretions of the bone, while pointing out that the
you hurt from which those bruises or fractures had been done you/they had been
it recovered while life continued. The tenth fracture remained in a
condition that showed that that you/he/she had been the deadly wound.

The bones of the wife of Arthur were found near those of his/her husband. The
hair was evidently perfect when it founded, while having the whole freshness
and the beauty of the life;  but a monk of the abbey to that the was present
disinterment, touched him/it and crumbled to dust.

Man is the histories that the old chronicles say some good King
Arthur, the last and the greatest representative of the power of the
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