[Footnote: Vivid though inaccurate pictures of life and events at the time of the Norman Conquest are given in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Harold' and Charles Kingsley's '
Hereward the Wake.' Tennyson's tragedy 'Harold' is much better than either, though more limited in scope.]
A Edgar the Quake B Lear the Mighty C Harolthwaite the Martyr D
Hereward the Wake 14.
There was
Hereward the Wake, whose exploits were the subject of a Charles Kingsley novel, Edwin, the ill-fated Earl of Mercia, and his brother, Morcar, who plays a part in a novel by Henry Treece.
Which area was the stronghold of the Anglo-Saxon rebel
Hereward the Wake? 2.
But those were ahead and for me in the early and mid-1960s, cowboy tales from the likes of Louis L'Amour ranked alongside stories of King Alfred and King Arthur,
Hereward the Wake and Ivanhoe.
WHO wrote the historical romance
Hereward the Wake? WHAT is the most easterly of the Balearics?
The volume includes a further six contributions not related to the selected theme, discussing such topics as the paleography of early medieval musical notation, racial Anglo-Saxonisms in Charles Kingsley's lecture series The Roman and the Teuton (1864) and novel
Hereward the Wake: "Last of the English" (1866), shifting roles in the cinematic sign of the grail, and the treatment of women in medievalist films in relationship to vengeance.
Q When I was a schoolgirl I used to watch a TV series called
Hereward The Wake. Have I got the name correct?
The Brits have Ethelred the Unready, William the Conqueror,
Hereward the Wake and Richard the Lionheart for starters.
Alfred the Great could be transmo grified into Alfred the All Right If You Like That Kind of Thing and
Hereward the Wake into Hereward the Usually Oversleeps.