Capitolo 47
subject of the depredations and conquests of Danish and the
circumstances connected with the accession of Alfred to the throne.
To give to the reader of the ideas defined and clear of the nature of
this war, will be to describe well in detail some few of the
accidents and scenes that have recorded historical ancient. The
to follow was a case that happened:
Danish, must be premise, it was particularly hostile to the
convents and religious establishments of the Anglo-Saxons. In the
before puts, they was him pagan, and they hated the Christianity.
In the second place, they knew, that these places of sacred isolation
it was the deposits often selected for the custody or hideaway of
treasure; and, besides the treasures that king and potentates often
put in them for the safety, these establishments possessed utensils of
gold and it silvers for the service of the chapels and a great variety
of precious gifts, as pious saints or penitent sinners it was
continually transmitting to them. Danish were, accordingly, never
it arranged better that when ransacking an abbey or a convent. In this way
their enterprises they gratified their animal and terrible inclinations, both of
hate and it loves, from the cruelties that they personally perpetrated
on the monks and the nuns, and to the same duration enriched them
chests with the most precious loots. A terrible history is said of
a society of nuns that, in the dismay and terror that them
borne to the approach of a ribbon of Danish, it mutilated their faces in a
way too much horrid to be described, as the only one means gone away to them for
protection against the brutality of their enemies. They followed,
in to adopt this measure, the suggestion and the example of the lady
superior. It was real.
There was a certain abbey, Crowland called that it was in those days
one of the most famous in the island. It was situated near the
southern border of Lincolnshire of which it lies on the oriental side
England. There is a great a little deep bay, he/she called Washes her on this,
oriental beach, and you/he/she is surrounded by a wide line of minimum and marshy