Walter Scott
The Betrothed & Its Sequel, The Talisman (Illustrated)
Historical Novels Set in the Time of Crusade Wars and King Richard the Lionheart
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-3238-3
Table of Contents
Tales of the Crusaders
THE BETROTHED
Chapter I
Now in these days were hotte wars upon the Marches of Wales.
LEWIS’S History.
The Chronicles, from which this narrative is extracted, assure us, that during the long period when the Welsh princes maintained their independence, the year 1187 was peculiarly marked as favourable to peace betwixt them and their warlike neighbours, the Lords Marchers, who inhabited those formidable castles on the frontiers of the ancient British, on the ruins of which the traveller gazes with wonder. This was the time when Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the learned Giraldus de Barri, afterwards Bishop of Saint David’s, preached the Crusade from castle to castle, from town to town; awakened the inmost valleys of his native Cambria with the call to arms for recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; and, while he deprecated the feuds and wars of Christian men against
