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Author Kightly, Charles.

Title Folk heroes of Britain / Charles Kightly
Published London : Thames and Hudson, [1982]
©1982

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 MELB  941.00992 K71F  AVAILABLE
Description 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- The beloved cattle expert : Caratacus and the Roman conquest of Britain -- The bloody queen : Boadicea's revolt against Rome -- Old Coel the Splendid : the real King Cole -- Sons of Woden and champions of Christ : the heroes of Anglo-Saxon England -- The English resistance : Hereward and the Fenland Revolt against William the Conqueror -- The outlaw general : William Wallace and the Scottish War of Independence 1296-1305
Summary Here, for the first time, is the true story of some of the most romantic and colorful figures in the whole of British history. Caratacus, the indomitable British king who defied Roman might for eight years, emerges as one of the great guerilla fighters in world history. Queen Boadicea, whose bloody revolt came close to exterminating the Roman invaders, is seen as the last champion of an ancient matriarchal society, while Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme is revealed as Old Coel the Splendid, who ruled the Scottish borders after the break with Rome. Here too are Anglo-Saxon heroes, from King Alfred and Wild Edric to King Harold and Hereward the Wake, struggling bravely against Vikings and Normans; and William Wallace, the son of a poor Scottish knight, but for whom Scotland might have become an English province. What mattered was not their ultimate victory, but their refusal ever to give in, the dogged perseverance in an apparently lost cause displayed by Caratacus in the Welsh hills, Alfred on Athelney or Hereward amid the Ely fens. - Jacket flap
Analysis Great Britain - History - To 1485
Heroes - England - Biography
Legends - England
Notes Bibliography: p. 192-197
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-197) and index
Subject Heroes -- England -- Biography.
Heroes -- England -- History.
Legends -- England.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- To 1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056725
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056725
LC no. 82166104
ISBN 0500250820