N The Normans Told Chiefly in Relation to Their Conquest of England Sarah Orne Jewett

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The Normans; Told Chiefly in Relation to Their Conquest of England

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The account of the vikings connects fighting abroad with the defence of rights, describing fighting as the men's natural employment and rights as dependent on being defended. The discussion of the old sagas says that their familiar language allowed everybody to understand them and to be amused or taught by them. The text says that the sagas were not intended only for monks and people living in cloisters.

The account of Cnut's arrangement of England into great earldoms describes continual rivalries and jealousies between the lords of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Wessex. The narrative describes Lady Godiva and Earl Leofric spending their lives and wealth chiefly in support of religious houses and the churches' good works in Mercia.

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American writer from South Berwick, Maine, and a leading figure in the local color movement. Her fiction preserved the speech, landscapes, and vanishing ways of coastal New England, and she influenced later writers including Willa Cather.