 | William Henderson - 1866 - 380 pàgines
...Neville's Cross,' answered the lad, promptly. ' I go there very often of an evening to see the place ; and if you walk nine times round the Cross, and then stoop down and lay your head to the turf, you'll hear the noise of the battle and the clash of the armour.' These were the young... | |
 | William Henderson - 1866 - 422 pàgines
...see the place ; and if you walk nine times round the Cross, and then stoop down and lay your head to the turf, you'll hear the noise of the battle and the clash of the armour.' These were the young fellow's exact words. The walking round the Cross I believe to be purely local... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pàgines
...Neville's Cross," answered the lad promptly. "I go there very often of an evening, to see the place, and if you walk nine times round the Cross, and then stoop down and lay jour head to the turf, you'll hear the noise of the battle and the clash of the armour." These were... | |
 | William Henderson - 1879 - 424 pàgines
...Neville's Cross," answered the lad, promptly. " I go there very often of an evening to see the place ; and if you walk nine times round the Cross, and then stoop...noise of the battle and the clash of the armour." These were the young fellow's exact words. The walking round the Cross I believe to be purely local;... | |
 | James J. Dodd - 1897 - 328 pàgines
...believed that if any person walk nine times round the cross and then lay his head upon the ground he will hear the noise of the battle and the clash of the armour. A number of relics of the battle are preserved in the museum at Durham. SPENNYNGMORE AND TWDDOWE. ||T... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - 1999 - 558 pàgines
...Henderson quoted a young pupil in Sunday School saying of a battle site now named Neville's Cross, '. . . if you walk nine times round the Cross, and then stoop...noise of the battle and the clash of the armour.' According to Henderson, 'These were the young fellow's exact words.'1 In describing the legend of the... | |
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These were the young fellow's exact words. The walking round the Cross I believe to be purely local; but the sites of other great battles of the world are in like manner haunted by echoes of the fight; and the Northamptonshire... 