Outlawed as a wild youth, Hereward roams through Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland and Flanders, slaying a bear, rescuing a princess and winning fame as a fighter and the love of the learned Torfrida. When he learns that the Normans have seized his family lands, he returns to lead the last English resistance from the island of Ely, among the marshes and abbeys of the Fens.
Kingsley’s last novel, a vigorous celebration of the fenland and of the English refusal to yield in 1066 and after. Download the free EPUB.