It was the morning after the exterminating1 fight at Hastings. The banner blessed of the Roman pontiff streamed on the tainted2 air, from the same hillock whence the dragon standard of the Saxons had shone unconquered to the sun of yester-even! Hard by was pitched the proud pavilion of the conqueror3, who, after the tremendous strife4 and perilous5 labors6 of the preceding day, reposed7 himself in fearless and untroubled confidence upon the field of his renown8; secure in the possession of the land, which he was destined9 to transmit to his posterity10 for many a hundred years, by the red title of the sword.
To the defeated Saxons, morning, however, brought but a renewal11 of those miseries12 which, having yesterday commenced with the first victory of their Norman lords, were never to conclude, or even to relax, until the complete amalgamation13 of the rival races should leave no Normans to torment14, no Saxons to endure; all being merged15 at last into one general name of English, and by their union giving origin to the most powerful, and brave, and intellectual people, the world has ever looked upon since the extinction16 of Rome’s freedom.
At the time of which we are now speaking, nothing was thought of by the victors save how to rivet17 most securely on38 the necks of the unhappy natives their yoke18 of iron; nothing by the poor, subjugated19 Saxons, but how to escape for the moment the unrelenting massacre20 which was urged far and wide by the remorseless conquerors21 throughout the devastated22 country. With the defeat of Harold’s host, all national hope of freedom was at once lost to England. Though, to a man, the English population were brave and loyal, and devoted23 to their country’s rights, the want of leaders—all having perished side by side on that disastrous24 field—of combination, without which myriads25 are but dust in the scale against the force of one united handful—rendered them quite unworthy of any serious fears, and even of consideration, to the bloodthirsty barons26 of the invading army. Over the whole expanse of level country which might be seen from the slight elevation27 whereon was pitched the camp of William, on every side might be descried28 small parties of the Norman horse, driving in with their bloody29 lances, as if they were mere30 cattle, the unhappy captives; a few of whom they now began to spare, not from the slightest sentiment of mercy, but literally31 that their arms were weary with the task of slaying33, although their hearts were yet insatiate of blood.
It must be taken now into consideration by those who listen with dismay and wonder to the accounts of pitiless barbarity—of ruthless, indiscriminating slaughter34 on the part of men whom they have hitherto been taught to look upon as brave indeed as lions in the field, but not partaking of the lion’s nature after the field was won—not only that the seeds of enmity had long been sown between those rival people, but that the deadly crop of hatred35 had grown up, watered abundantly by the tears and blood of either; and, lastly, that the fierce fanaticism36 of religious persecution37 was added to the natural rancor38 of a war waged for the ends of conquest or extermination39. The Saxon nation, from the king downward to the meanest serf who fought39 beneath his banner, or buckled40 on the arms of liberty, were all involved under the common ban of the pope’s interdict41. They were accursed of God, and handed over by his holy church to the kind mercies of the secular42 arm; and therefore, though but yesterday they were a powerful and united nation, to-day they were but a vile43 horde44 of scattered45 outlaws46, whom any man might slay32 wherever he should find them, whether in arms or otherwise—amenable for blood neither to any mortal jurisdiction47, nor even to the ultimate tribunal to which all must submit hereafter, unless deprived of their appeal like these poor fugitives48, by excommunication from the pale of Christianity. For thirty miles around the Norman camp, pillars of smoke by day, continually streaming upward to the polluted heaven, and the red glare of nightly conflagration49, told fatally the doom50 of many a happy home! Neither the castle nor the cottage might preserve their male inhabitants from the sword’s edge, their females from more barbarous persecution. Neither the sacred hearth51 of hospitality nor the more sacred altars of God’s churches might protect the miserable52 fugitives; neither the mail-shirt of the man-at-arms nor the monk’s frock of serge availed against the thrust of the fierce Norman spear. All was dismay and havoc53, such as the land wherein those horrors were enacted54 has never witnessed since, through many a following age.
High noon approached, and in the conqueror’s tent a gorgeous feast was spread. The red wine flowed profusely55, and song and minstrelsy arose with their heart-soothing tones, to which the feeble groans56 of dying wretches57 bore a dread58 burden from the plain whereon they still lay struggling in their great agonies, too sorely maimed to live, too strong as yet to die. But, ever and anon, their wail59 waxed feebler and less frequent; for many a plunderer60 was on foot, licensed61 to ply62 his odious63 calling in the full light of day—reaping his first if not his richest booty from the dead bodies of their slaughtered64 foemen. Ill40 fared the wretches who lay there, untended by the hand of love or mercy, “scorched by the death-thirst, and writhing66 in vain;” but worse fared they who showed a sign of life to the relentless67 robbers of the dead, for then the dagger—falsely called that of mercy—was the dispenser of immediate68 immortality69. The conqueror sat at his triumphant70 board, and barons drank his health: “First English monarch71, of the pure blood of Normandy!”—“King by the right of the sword’s edge!”—“Great, glorious, and sublime72!” Yet was not his heart softened73, nor was his bitter hate toward the unhappy prince who had so often ridden by his side in war, and feasted at the same board with him in peace, relinquished74 or abated75. Even while the feast was at the highest, while every heart was jocund76 and sublime, a trembling messenger approached, craving77 on bended knee permission to address the conqueror and king—for so he was already schooled by brief but hard experience to style the devastator78 of his country.
“Speak out, Dog Saxon!” cried the ferocious79 prince; “but since thou must speak, see that thy speech be brief, an’ thou wouldst keep thy tongue uncropped thereafter!”
“Great duke and mighty80,” replied the trembling envoy81, “I bear you greeting from Elgitha, herewhile the noble wife of Godwin, the queenly mother of our late monarch—now, as she bade me style her, the humblest of your suppliants82 and slaves. Of your great nobleness and mercy, mighty king, she sues you, that you will grant her the poor leave to search amid the heaps of those our Saxon dead, that her three sons may at least lie in consecrated83 earth—so may God send you peace and glory here, and everlasting84 happiness hereafter!”
“Hear to the Saxon slave!” William exclaimed, turning as if in wonder toward his nobles; “hear to the Saxon slave, that dares to speak of consecrated earth, and of interment for the accursed body of that most perjured85, excommunicated liar86!41 Hence! tell the mother of the dead dog, whom you have dared to style your king, that for the interdicted87 and accursed dead the sands of the seashore are but too good a sepulchre!”
“She bade me proffer88 humbly89 to your acceptance the weight of Harold’s body in pure gold,” faintly gasped90 forth91 the terrified and cringing92 messenger, “so you would grant her that permission.”
“Proffer us gold! what gold, or whose? Know, villain93, all the gold throughout this conquered realm is ours. Hence, dog and outcast, hence! nor presume e’er again to come, insulting us by proffering94, as a boon95 to our acceptance, that which we own already, by the most indefeasible and ancient right of conquest!—Said I not well, knights96, vavasours, and nobles?”
“Well! well and nobly!” answered they, one and all. “The land is ours, and all that therein is: their dwellings97, their demesnes, their wealth, whether of gold, or silver, or of cattle—yea, they themselves are ours! themselves, their sons, their daughters, and their wives—our portion and inheritance, to be our slaves for ever!”
“Begone! you have our answer,” exclaimed the duke, spurning98 him with his foot; “and hark ye, arbalast-men and archers99, if any Saxon more approach us on like errand, see if his coat of skin be proof against the quarrel of the shaft100!”
And once again the feast went on; and louder rang the revelry, and faster flew the wine-cup, round the tumultuous board. All day the banquet lasted, even till the dews of heaven fell on that fatal field, watered sufficiently101 already by the rich gore102 of many a noble heart. All day the banquet lasted, and far was it prolonged into the watches of the night; when, rising with the wine-cup in his hand—“Nobles and barons,” cried the duke, “friends, comrades, conquerors, bear witness to my vow103! Here, on these heights of Hastings, and more especially upon yon mound104 and hillock, where God gave to us our high victory,42 and where our last foe65 fell—there will I raise an abbey to his eternal praise and glory. Richly endowed, it shall be, from the first fruits of this our land. Battle, it shall be called, to send the memory of this, the great and singular achievement of our race, to far posterity; and, by the splendor105 of our God, wine shall be plentier among the monks106 of Battle, than water in the noblest and richest cloister107 else, search the world over! This do I swear: so may God aid, who hath thus far assisted us for our renown, and will not now deny his help, when it be asked for his own glory!”
The second day dawned on the place of horror, and not a Saxon had presumed, since the intolerant message of the duke, to come to look upon his dead. But now the ground was needed whereon to lay the first stone of the abbey William had vowed108 to God. The ground was needed; and, moreover, the foul109 steam from the human shambles110 was pestilential on the winds of heaven. And now, by trumpet-sound, and proclamation through the land, the Saxons were called forth, on pain of death, to come and seek their dead, lest the health of the conquerors should suffer from the pollution they themselves had wrought111. Scarce had the blast sounded, and the glad tidings been announced once only, ere from their miserable shelters, where they had herded112 with the wild beasts of the forest—from wood, morass113, and cavern114, happy if there they might escape the Norman spear—forth crept the relics115 of that persecuted116 race. Old men and matrons, with hoary117 heads, and steps that tottered118 no less from the effect of terror than of age—maidens, and youths, and infants—too happy to obtain permission to search amid those festering heaps, dabbling119 their hands in the corrupt120 and pestilential gore which filled each nook and hollow of the dinted soil, so they might bear away, and water with their tears, and yield to consecrated ground, the relics of those brave ones, once loved so fondly, and now so bitterly lamented121.43 It was toward the afternoon of that same day, when a long train was seen approaching, with crucifix, and cross, and censer—the monks of Waltham abbey, coming to offer homage122 for themselves, and for their tenantry and vassals123, to him whom they acknowledged as their king; expressing their submission124 to the high will of the Norman pontiff—justified, as they said, and proved by the assertion of God’s judgment125 upon the hill of Hastings. Highly delighted by this absolute submission, the first he had received from any English tongue, the conqueror received the monks with courtesy and favor, granting them high immunities126, and promising127 them free protection, and the unquestioned tenor128 of their broad demesnes for ever. Nay129, after he had answered their address, he detained two of their number—men of intelligence, as with his wonted quickness of perception he instantly discovered—from whom to derive130 information as to the nature of his newly-acquired country and newly-conquered subjects. Osgad and Ailric, the deputed messengers from the respected principal of their community, had yet a further and higher object than to tender their submission to the conqueror. Their orders were, at all and every risk, to gain permission to consign131 the corpse132 of their late king and founder133 to the earth previously134 denied to him. And soon, emboldened135 by the courtesy and kindness of the much-dreaded Norman, they took courage to approach the subject, knowing it interdicted, even on pain of death; and, to their wonder and delight, it was unhesitatingly granted.
Throughout the whole of the third day succeeding that unparalleled defeat and slaughter, those old men might be seen toiling136 among the naked carcasses, disfigured, maimed, and festering in the sun, toiling to find the object of their devoted veneration137. But vain were all their labors—vain was their search, even when they called in the aid of his most intimate attendants, ay, of the mother that had borne him! The corpses138 of44 his brethren, Leofwyn and Gurth, were soon discovered; but not one eye, even of those who had most dearly loved him, could now distinguish the maimed features of the king.
At last, when hope itself was now almost extinct, some one named Edith—Edith the Swan-necked! She had been the mistress—years ere he had been, or dreamed of being, king—to the brave son of Godwin. She had beloved him in her youth with that one, single-minded, constant, never-ending love, which but few, even of her devoted sex, can feel, and they but once, and for one cherished object. Deserted139 and dishonored when he she loved was elevated to the throne, she had not ceased from her true adoration140; but, quitting her now-joyless home, had shared her heart between her memories and her God, in the sequestered141 cloisters142 of the nunnery of Croyland. More days elapsed ere she could reach the fatal spot, and the increased corruption143 denied the smallest hope of his discovery: yet, from the moment when the mission was named to her, she expressed her full and confident conviction that she could recognise that loved one so long as but one hair remained on that head she had once so cherished! It was night when she arrived on the fatal field, and by the light of torches once more they set out on their awful duty. “Show me the spot,” she said, “where the last warrior144 fell;” and she was led to the place where had been found the corpses of his gallant145 brethren: and, with an instinct that nothing could deceive, she went straight to the corpse of Harold! It had been turned already to and fro many times by those who sought it; his mother had looked on it, and pronounced it not her son’s: but that devoted heart knew it at once—and broke! Whom rank, and wealth, and honors had divided, defeat and death made one!—and the same grave contained the cold remains146 of Edith the Swan-necked and the last scion147 of the Saxon kings of England.
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