Author: David Phelps

There was a shoemaker of Constantinople who surpassed all others in his craft. He could do in a day what

Gerbert at Burgundy, a student at Reims, wanted to outshine all the other students. At that time the daughter of

In the year of Our Lord 1040, a rich young nobleman who went by the name of Hamo With the

A knight died and left and only son, Eudo, an heir to great wealth. He was tall and handsome but

Rollo, a man of great reputation, had a beautiful wife. A local youth by the name of Resus was deeply

Raso had a castle, strongly fortified, because his land was near to that of the Saracens. Raso had fewer troops

Ninius, the founder of the Assyrian empire and Nineveh, had two chamberlains, Parius and Lausus, who were friends. Secretly Parius

Sadius, the nephew of the king of Asia, was greatly loved by his uncle. Galo, though a stranger to the

Pepin, the hereditary seneschal of France was on his deathbed. He said to his son, “My dear Charles, by God’s

A certain knight of Northumberland was seated alone in his house after dinner one summer day when his father, who