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发信人: Systems (两年之约--卧薪尝胆), 信区: English
标 题: Story Thirteen
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年07月30日16:38:52 星期三), 站内信件
STORY THIRTEEN
Athelstan and his Posterities
Inherited from his grandfather and father, Althelstan was also quite aggress
ive. In 926 AD, he marched into Yorkshire and conquered Northumbrians. He wa
s so powerful that the King of Scots acknowledged him as his 'father and lor
d' and the Welsh princes agreed to pay him money every year. Though from 933
AD, he received a joint threat from the whole of North Britain, Celtic, Dan
ish and Norwegian, but he defeated them at Brunanburh in 937 AD, for which t
he first patriotic poem in Old English was written for him.
The victory of the English was overwhelming, and Athelstan became one of the
first sovereigns of Western Europe. His three sisters married three kings a
nd princes on the European continent, in which Edith, especially, married Ot
to, who was the son of the first Saxon King of the Germans, Henry the Fowler
, and who would one day be on the throne of Holy Roman Empire.
Athelstand died in 939 AD and the following two English kings, Edmund and Ed
red, successfully kept and maintained the land. Particularly, Edmund defeate
d another Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, in 946 AD.
In 955 AD, a twelve-year-old boy, Edgar, became the King of Mercia and his b
other, the fifteen-year-old Eadwig, became the King of Wessex who died a cou
ple of years later. So Edgar began to rule Wessex, Mercia and Northumberland
altogether. His coronation was the first to have a written Order of Service
and it is the basis of the one used today.
He was an excellent political and civil manger. In his time, the administrat
ive order in England was rebuilt, laws were developed and taxation was re-ca
lculated. Finally, a great re-birth of religious life marched ahead and we a
lso need to remember that in this epoch appeared English literature.
Actually, behind curtain of religion was St. Dunstan. Born in 925 AD, he cre
ated Abbot of Glastonbury at the age of eighteen, which is still a very impo
rtant church in England nowadays. Form Glastonbury he helped to rebuild Engl
ish monastic orders. His life was a piece of legend. He once saw something h
e should not have had seen: King Eadwig amused himself with a woman and her
daughter on his coronation day! Being observed, the King was upset, the woma
n was upset, and the daughter was upset. Dunstan ended up in exile and the d
aughter ended up married to the King. It was Edgar that restored him and fro
m then, he began to work for the King.
--
We are angels with but one wing.
To fly we must embrace each other.
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