Category: Historical Novels
The house of Master Eidiol, the dean of the Skippers' or Mariners' Guild of Paris, was situated not far from the port of St. Landry and of the ramparts of that part of the town that is known as the _Cité_, which is bathed by the two branches of the Seine, and is flanked with t...
The abbey of St. Denis resembled a vast fortified castle. The high and thick walls that enclosed it, the only entrance through which was a vaulted gate, covered with heavy sheet...
11. CHAPTER XI.Upon quitting the _drekar_ of Rolf, Shigne and Gaëlo reembarked upon their own _holkers_ and ordered their oarsmen to ply their oars vigorously. The two _holkers_ glided swiftly...
2. CHAPTER II.Father Fultrade, the leader of the choir at St. Denis, whom the sergeant addressed, was an able-bodied monk of not more than thirty years of age. He was riding slowly up the str...
12. CHAPTER XII.One of the pavilions of the royal residence at Compiegne served as the apartment of Ghisèle, the daughter of Charles the Simple, King of the Franks. The young princess usually w...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The city of Rouen was in gala. Large crowds of people filled the streets and pressed eagerly towards the basilica whose bells were pealing at their loudest. Among those who were...
6. CHAPTER VI.Shortly after the count's departure from the abbey, the reinforcement of a hundred soldiers promised by him arrived at the place. Their captain spent the night in preparing the...
1. CHAPTER I.The house of Master Eidiol, the dean of the Skippers' or Mariners' Guild of Paris, was situated not far from the port of St. Landry and of the ramparts of that part of the town...
3. CHAPTER III.On the very day when Master Eidiol, bound for the small port of St. Audoin, descended the Seine on board his trading vessel, two other craft, proceeding from the opposite direct...
4. CHAPTER IV.Following with saddened eyes the light _holker_ that carried away the warrior maid, Gaëlo remained silent and pensive, while his champions rested upon their oars. The steersman,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Eidiol, his son, his daughter, and Rustic the Gay, back from Rouen two days past, were congregated in the evening at their humble home in Paris. More than ever did they now real...
7. CHAPTER VII.The monk and the two soldiers had barely stretched the Buckler Maiden upon the slab-stones of the crypt, when an icy terror ran through their frames. A noise, at first heard ind...
10. CHAPTER X.The large fleet of the pirates pulled from the banks on which the abbey of St. Denis rose, and, driven by a favorable wind, steered for Paris since early sunrise of the next mor...
9. CHAPTER IX.Rolf, the Sea-King and supreme Chief of the Northman pirates, was a man far advanced in years. His beard and hair, naturally of a yellow blonde, were heavily streaked with grey....
8. CHAPTER VIII.A night and almost a whole day had passed since Anne the Sweet, taken into one of the underground cells of the abbey of St. Denis by Father Fultrade, had escaped the outrageous...