II
[AD 1215]
[End Chapter Mom] said: "I do not know what happened, but I know that he is done with drink." She added, "I remember," there are worse things than killing people, and I said what? "And Mother said:" kill or love something beautiful, and does nothing, but you know who could. "
My mother had seen me in a way they never before had I did not know then what it meant, now I know she looked up at me that are not givenMoment, a symbol of the ancient and eternal, and I was comparing Snake should be a clear distinction between those who can, do, for those who do not or do not otherwise suffer endlessly.
Then we both seemed to be free, I do not understand, but I knew that look, I would understand someday.
In the boat I saw her looking at me with fathomless eyes, looked at me.
I was young then, strong, a hard body for a boy of my age, like my father. Richard, my brother was a ting morerecognize that he has not the courage, and he was just insecure, he had none, or so that way I will be perceived. At that time my mother has changed little since ten years ago, still lean from what everyone in the city said of her.
The soldier who was killed, he had an irreconcilable pointed head, with wild hair and crazy eyes cut, he wanted to know what happened, he has just died. I know my mother is not sure when that day-dreaming about their mode so that the story has told me so. She was like aloaded crossbow, with a hair trigger. She told me: "He was a drinker, and it was too late for him to stop, what to do, he had set his mind, reaches a drunk a point where it's too late to stop him, he may think It will still, experience has taught me, he will not (they both had this phase and the conclusion is reached), and that's what I thought to myself, cause, and I did what you said I had done. "
Advance written: There was a time before Beowulf was, but after Sherborne Abbey in DorsetRoman Catholic prayer book was written. With a green and black wax seals on a scroll strip on the underside of a charter written (AD 1215)-King John was now enthroned holding the scepter attached.
It was written in that year of 1215 with gall ink. She was called the Magna Carta, perhaps the first of its kind, a "charter of liberties," many copies were made, and sent to Glastonbury, a fire badly damaged, but it was displayed in the village but to the people;among them, Angelina and her husband, known as a decade before the Green Knight.
The eloquence of the historical records of the nobility and idealism, they expressed their warm the heart of Glastonbury, especially Angelina's with the words:
"No free man to take, or imprisoned or deprived or outlawed or exiled, or ruined in any way ..."
Need I say more --
it was as the cornerstone of modern freedom of worship, and with time in the world that would recognize andAngelina now with two sons and two daughters, saw this as a romantic and influential part of British law.
This was also the time when the Crusades were a part of the structure of the day, and talk much of it in the village of Glastonbury, for that matter, all of Europe. It was a time when Jerusalem was still on the Muslim leader, Saladin, in fact, it was a bloody battle, had been to all three religions, which looked out upon Jerusalem, captured as a holy ground.
It was the timeSt. Francis of Assisi was a monastic order, when Pope Innocent III was Pope in Rome, a most capable, yes.
And let's not say, too loud, King John of England and Pope Innocent as two attacking fought Grendel's.
If we are beyond Europe at this time in history we will see, Genghis Khan enter Beijing, and break through the Great Wall of China and the Mongols conquered all in sight, much like the Vikings of their time.
And though Angelina was a goodMother and wife, holding her on current events as they drove in Glastonbury, as well as she could. In most cases, their small town was quiet, and their small shops, set.
-But there were difficult times for King John, to say the least, and it would only get worse. He would die a year later, in 1216, after losing the French domination, and his disputes with Rome, his show on the taxation of the nobility, who have a hand in the civil war, I wouldRepeat: Finally, in John's death.
To be honest, Angelina, like King Richard I, more than John, who thought captured during the Crusades was, even out of England hardly saw him for ten years, the extent of his domination of England, she saw him compared, King Arthur , of times past.
Chapter One
The Baron of war
(AD 1215, John meets in Runnymede, agrees to the statements set out in the Magna Carta)
In the heart of Glastonbury, England Summerset, if oneis for reference, from the village, almost anywhere you will see the wide gate, it is an artificial hill, and on its summit is an abbey (now only one tower remains, burned down years ago).
It was in that year King John on the lookout for recruiting soldiers, had to get his war with the Baron of England, France, the support form, in particular, Prince Louis (who would one years on the Capture the Tower of London, 1216 AD came the fight, but of course I'm jumping in front of our history, because we areyet in 1215).
This year for Angelina would be a most difficult years, in fact, it will consume eighteen months, and the rest of the story needs to be extracted from her diary.
(Diary of Angelina)
"King John came with many soldiers in Glastonbury today. He knew the reputation of my husband, who knew his fight in the Crusades, each, of course, and he asked my husband, personally asked him to connect well with his army against the rich barons of England, who had tried todethrone him. Apparently he did not want after the Magna Carta, which he signed a very go. He even quoted the man whom he so hated the pope, who had ordered John was not, or not required by this regulation, and now it is natural history. So John took my husband as if he were a criminal and instead tied him to a rope, from one of the soldiers on horseback.
"He tried to explain to the king, I became pregnant, and he had his army, was born just after the child to join, but wouldnot be of great benefit, since gone, and thought of his wife and child. The king took it as an insult, and there was nothing more to say. He asked the king to let him stay, I had never troubled my husband in such a form.
"It was a sad day indeed, because I knew she would take him to London, perhaps the tower, and torment him. But let me tell you tell you what I've done, and maybe it was stupid I ran to my husband told him that I would find him, wherever he was, and the soldier kicked me, kicked meright into my stomach, I had tears, I tried not to cry, to show them, but I could not, my stomach was so painful, I think my stomach on the floor, I think it was ... how sad a knight can do such a thing, are King John's knights, like him, and my grandfather used to say: "... give a dog a new name, and do not need him hanged." I want King Richard was here, he has the name John in the good name after his death. Now he's thinks he's untouchable.
"When I put it in the dirtour little shop, I saw the King take my husband out of town, as he grabbed several potential young men to become soldiers in his army (the Civil War began and Angelina knew it was a small part of it, but the resistance breeds resistance, and their Spirit moved back to King Arthur, the hero of heroes, and King Richard the Lionheart, and what has been laid dormant, awakened in her heart, a little lion with big teeth.) "
Chapter Two
Tower of London
It was a shame forAngelina's husband, when he becomes a knight, pulled from Glastonbury as a thief in fact, a disgrace. In many cases, Ritter was appointed as sheriffs and representatives of the people in counties in Parliament.
Angelina had felt helpless, and now she had lost her child a very terrible time for her, as she puts it in her diary:
"It has been here for three months because I lost my child and my husband is somewhere in the Tower of London, so I had of Prince Louis, who has said,let me in this matter.
"I now know that Tames runs on the side of the tower, I've never been to London, it is all new to me, but this card is a good, sent me the prince, although more than one hundred years old, but he has all around it, how did it fifteen years, I doubt thinking changed so much in these years.
"It seems a number of towers on this map: Let me describe: an odd looking square at one corner higher than the other, and there I seethe river, it passes through the bell tower, and in this strange place the outer word is, and at the rear of the Main Tower is the inner word, and there are three towers, "one of the Wardrobe Tower, which is in this strange place, the most important area, they call the Tower of London, and it has three towers, in order to have a torture chamber. I did make it to the bell tower, I believe. And there is also the gateway. Map reading is not my specialty, so I hope I do not get wrong, but I must now developPlan. "
Chapter Three
The tower, Wolf, and Ax
"I've got my husband out of the tower before being tortured to death. I'm sure not live another year, King John, but his madness, England, as a tyrant rule like a slave camp, but that does little to me; should I wait to die, it will not come soon enough to save my husband. I have gone through the card a hundred times now. "
She went through the Thames, it was dark, and it was the beginning of wilting;had cooled the air, the wind almost freezing, you could see my breath. You could see the Tower today: her wolf at her side in the boat her two sons, Phillip, the elder, and Richard, the younger (eleven and twelve). She had a plan to bribe their gold and silver, and in the hope it would be enough to get through the gate, and accompanies the bell tower, she had everything she could shop, house, sold everything, and fourteen pieces of gold , and several silver coins: She was penniless, whenThis is not working, then it was certain death.
They had put on the boat, went to the gateway entrance:
(Diary) "bribed with gold in my hand, I can watch the first two to me and try to talk to the authorities to see my husband, if only for a minute. And they saw no evil, and thought I would get back before I came to the tower anyway, so they had nothing to lose. Phillip was with me and my wolf (the old Wolf had been fifteen years is ashe had bought and also a day it came up again after it had run here somewhere, wolves were missing most teeth but he had a mean growl was faithful, and still more teeth present, if necessary, use something for the teeth for ), was already waiting by the Bell Tower, and Richard was in the boat to watch them.
"So I had everything in its place, but I knew that something goes wrong, it is not always true and if so, I would resort to another plan, but to be honest, Ihad no other book. But my son tells me I created it quickly. Anyway, we walked slowly down the main hall, quietly pat the Royal Residence, high up on the gallery level. I think they ran me around in circles, because it was the bell tower at the other end of the Inner Ward outside. I paid each guard a gold coin, everyone wanted to be bribed. Then a guard pointed to the bell tower, said: "... that is the bell tower that your husband is in, save when he was alive, he hastorture was pretty bad. "
"I had him my last silver coin, and now I was under the bell tower steps and came big fat old guard knew the old man what I wanted, but I had no coins left, and I told him. He was half drunk; drools allover the young guard next to me and my son and me.
"I had hoped that the young guard who was so friendly, the charade, stop back in the main tower, which would persuade his comrades, I had paid dearly to get them toSteps, but he remained silent.
"I could see the door, it was slightly open, this man must have been kicking my husband and his shoes were bloody." How much silver you have left, "he asked me to say frankly, this old soldier to endure the difficult has had its fleet has become the best of him. "I have no more, 'I told him no. And he did not so a little bit.
"Then with the strength of a bear, I felt like a twig in his grasp, he pulled me to him, put his handon my on my chest and his joy was with me for this moment. I was surprised, and when he pulled his hand .... "
[Phillip] That's all my mother can remember, so I will fill in the space. When he pulled his hand froze, the upper part of my mother's dress, she was, I had noticed, perhaps with terror, or maybe do with anger, I do not know.
If we had passed the torture room in the Main Tower, I remember my mother pick up something, an ax, Inot much to see, and I was horrified to see the man on the rack, which stretched from his joints. But the executioner's block ax was there when I first saw it, and I saw my mother to touch it, and when I looked surprised to see how strong she was, he was gone. Again I must say, this guy was on the rack, whose members were drawn to the God-and-white, block everything else out of my head, but here is what followed, what I remember is:
When large and heavy soldier pulled out his handDress my mother came from the ax, they had hidden it under her clothes so that his hand fell like a mug of beer on the floor, then came out of his head, his eyes still in shock looking at his hands, was now the head called by collapsing body, and search into a cave near the neck, he blinked his eyes, could not believe he was headless. Funny, how long you live neck-less.
The young soldier was in shock, he was where he stood stone still as the pillars of Hercules frozen.
IWe now assume that I look back, it was held most suitable for its purpose, especially in the area of the tower, it is not the place of executions. Mom just took the plan B into action the plan which they have not, until the guards tried to by in a circle to scare, and the torture chamber.
Yes, yes, that was the young soldier, still in shock, piss running down his leg onto the floor.
Chapter Four
Escape
Had all my mother was a garment, and it wasit: was wrapped around her a rope, where she had hidden that executioner's ax, and so carefully and promptly pulled it out to save the day. She had a tunic, and left him in the boat, I was not sure why she never said, but now I knew. We were in the bell tower, the father on the floor was weak, and beaten pretty badly, but when he saw his mother, he stood up and said:
"Angelina, Angelina! ... Is it really."
And kissed her.
Without ADUE (or time) to lose, theyundressed and wrapped the rope around his waist, and tied it to an absolute in the window: The bars were separated wide enough that we do not dig, thank God.
As we climbed the rope, mom's Wolf was faithful to wait, but we also saw that young guard is now running around, out of the gate to us, he had resumed his composure. When he caught up to us, but jumped six meters in front of the mother, the old wolf, with half his teeth gone, like a hawk on the soldiers, andbe incurred face bad tooth imprint here and there: he will never again be as I fear, find the favor of young girls.
First, we had all run to the boat, and Richard quickly pushed us all into the stream. More guards were now running out of the gate entrance, and mom's wolf jumped into the boat as we were now free from the bank.
[Diary entry: Phillip] John King is dead, and he has my return to Glastonbury, after hiding in the abbey at the gate. Mother stopped writing in his diary onthis matter, so I took it upon myself to fill in the spaces of time. King Henry III came to power in October was the 1216th He would live and die for my father in 1272, which two years ago.
Now I am old, and Edward I, will live out to me. But who cares, let him be a crowned crusaders, like my great-grandfather. Mama would have lived it, but it's kind of a warrior who was like his father, and Arthur and King Richard. The wolf died in 1217, she had her affair with mom, I guess.That is all I have to say.
The End
Note: Benjamin Szumskyj Dedicated; written 1/15/06, when the BN Center, Roseville, Minnesota
