A knight died and left and only son, Eudo, an heir to great wealth. He was tall and handsome but
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OF ROLLO AND HIS WIFE
Rollo, a man of great reputation, had a beautiful wife. A local youth by the name of Resus was deeply
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Raso had a castle, strongly fortified, because his land was near to that of the Saracens. Raso had fewer troops
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Ninius, the founder of the Assyrian empire and Nineveh, had two chamberlains, Parius and Lausus, who were friends. Secretly Parius
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Sadius, the nephew of the king of Asia, was greatly loved by his uncle. Galo, though a stranger to the
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Pepin, the hereditary seneschal of France was on his deathbed. He said to his son, “My dear Charles, by God’s
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A certain knight of Northumberland was seated alone in his house after dinner one summer day when his father, who
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Turpin, Archbishop of Reims, faithfully recorded the events of Charlemagne’s reign and this is one of his stories. A knight
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In the time of Roger, bishop of Worcester, a man died without being shriven. For a month or more his
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William Laudun, an English knight, came to Gilbert Foliot when he was bishop of Hereford and said, “My lord, I
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