Chapter I: Front Matter

WULNOTH THE WANDERER

STORIES OF VIKING DAYS

Illustrated and Decorated by the Kinneys

=The Thrall of Leif the Lucky.= By Ottilie A. Liljencrantz. Six
pictures in full color. _Eighth Edition._

=The Ward of King Canute.= By Ottilie A. Liljencrantz. Six pictures in
full color. _Third Edition._

=For the White Christ.= By Robert Ames Bennet. Four pictures in full
color.

_Each volume beautifully printed and bound, $1.50_

A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers

]

Wulnoth
The Wanderer

A Story of
King Alfred of England

BY

H. Escott-Inman

With decorations and frontispiece by Troy & Margaret West Kinney

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1908

Copyright

A. C. McClurg & Co.

1908

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, Eng.

Published October 17, 1908

The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I How Wyborga the Wise spoke with King
Hardacnute 1

II How Wulnoth saved Edgiva from the
Bear 12

III How Wulnoth journeyed by the Birds'
Road 27

IV The Coming of Hungwar and Hubba 39

V Of Wulnoth's Schooling 53

VI Of Wulnoth's Strange Wrestling in the
Place of Desolation 64

VII Of the Coming of Wulnoth to the Danish
Sea-kings 75

VIII Of what befell Wulnoth in the Halls of
the Danes 87

IX How the Sea-kings sailed for East Anglia 98

X Of the Slaying of Edmund, the King of
the East Saxons 111

XI How Wulnoth met with Wyborga again 124

XII How Wulnoth and Wahrmund visited
the Christian Church 136

XIII Of how Wulnoth met with Edgiva again 147

XIV How Wahrmund the Dane gave his Life
for Wulnoth 159

XV How Wulnoth came to Alfred 170

XVI How the Men of Wessex fought the
Danes 183

XVII The Passing of Ethelred the King 195

XVIII Of the Coming back of Guthrun 203

XIX Of the Capturing of the Raven Banner 214

XX Of the Hunting of the Ring 226

XXI Of the Gleeman who visited the Danish
Camp 237

XXII The Battle of Ethandune 248

XXIII How Hungwar was slain, and the
Danes became Christians 260

XXIV How Wulnoth met with Guthred again 271

XXV The Crowning of Guthred 285

XXVI Of the Wedding of Wulnoth and Edgiva 296

XXVII Skoal! 306