These Audio books are a fantastic addition to my virtual library. They make housework light, exercise less solitary and even serve as a great bedtime story. I so appreciate access to them.
I prefer the ones that don't spam the librivox ident every single chapter, otherwise those get seared into your brain if you really do listen while working, like I do.
The machinations of men throughout history is simply a template by which evil operates. Nothing new under the sun. Great story, great dialogue and narration. Caused me to read more history. Which is always a joy.
One of my favourites of Henty's books. I read all of them in my school and public library in the 60's and 70's for the First time. This Dragon and Raven, and lion of St Mark are possibly my favourites. With Lee in Virgina probably most difficult to read without really hanging on to "It was a different time!" With the Irish Brigade, and Lion of the North pretty good too.
I agree on The Dragon and the Raven being a good book! It's one of my favorites as well as well as William Wallace and the Bruce. I just started reading these books this year and will be glad to check out the other ones you mentioned.
Loved these stories as a child. Now at 31 I had almost forgot about them entirely. I couldn't remember the authors name, but I remembered The Young Carthaginian. That was one of my favorites. Along with Wulf and The Cat Of Bubastes
@@stevenclarke2559 and your comment is riddled with undercurrents of low testosterone, self loathing, and an impending menstrual cycle. Fortunately, none of you people seem to reproduce; so the future is very conservative.
@steven clarke Christ , can't you people ever stop whining? Would you say the sane about a historic African Audiobook? Or The 570odd warring tribes in America?
I'm a Norman! It's a very strong heritiage of mine, I'm related to all the famous kings and queens, and my last name is even Norman! I'm very proud that a low class person as myself can call back to such greats on Earth.
Each chapter should be broken down on a time line rather than lapsed all into one. Here is a rough outline for every chapter from beginning to end. As an educator, this is helpful to have each chapter broken into parts. I hope this will be of help for those other facilitators also, using and incorporating into differentiated learning. Chapter I- 36:54 END Chapter II- 39:02 Begins Chapter III- 1:11:38 Begins Chapter IV- 1:47:29 Begins
An entertaining reading and a terrific story from over a century ago, he must have researched well. I assume it was popular in it's day, I found it wonderful in this time of computer research and archaeological study. A true delight in this world of electrical fantasy...
thank you for posting this , an enjoyable audio book. As for William... England was ahead of it's time, way ahead and William knew that. Harold could have been the best king since Alfred the Great. William was a disaster, a tyrant who introduced the feudal system, in effect, mass slavery. But. The Normans wrote the 'history'.
Although had Harold not usurped the throne and William the bastard just inherited without the Battle The saxon kingdom would have remained pretty much the same But with all those barons including French ( not all were Norman) owning places building castles & ruling like demi kings It was awful for the saxons & saxon England I think only 2 maybe 3 saxon nobles kept their land. Saxon law everyone had a value Norman law there barons owned the people who has little or no rights at all after the invasion. Such a shame, I love the saxon era .
I appreciate the shortened librivox intro. Those that take 30 seconds every chapter are irritating and I often skip listening to those uploads entirely
For dialogue yeah? So you just read a fat 80 year old mans voice in your head the same as a 4 year old girl? Sounds like you don't have much imagination.
I'm enjoying this book. Just a side note though. I was brought up in Steyning (Wulf's holding in West Sussex,) and we call it STENing. STAYning is a common mispronunciation. Although, to be fair, if the author researched the subject well, it might be that Stayning is an old pronunciation. It's an interesting little town. It had a mint in the time of Edward the confessor and coins from his reign have been found there. It was also an important port at that time but the river silted up in later Medieval times therefore it lost that prominence.
Really appreciated the read ..I recently listened to a similar story but narrators were women with faint voices . One heavy Asian accent. The book was under Drakes flag
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There's something really sad about two groups of Christian men fighting and killing reach other is very tragic, that should never happen. I know it does and it will go on, but sad none the less.
Clark Wilson Come back when you can do 1/100th of what Peter Keeble can do. He is one of the best Librivox narrators and I hope he does more GA Henty's works. Peter is a maestro just as is GA Henry.
So is the author telling us the English are basically a mix of Germans and French? I always thought these were the hated enemy of England. It makes me wonder what happened to the British people ?
Snaggle Toothed thanks for info. Am i correct in saying the English commoners weren't replaced by French only the masters were French?. I'm assuming the hatred of the French was from the common folk against brutal Norman overlords.
the norman were the ancestors of norsemen that had conquered normandy a part of france that took its name from the norsemen. the french could not beat them so the king of france gave them the provence to keep the peace .which after the norman conquered england led to war with france because the norman kings of england would not give up their lands in france.
The Saxon devastated the original Britains, drove most of the rest, who they called"Welsh" which means enemy in the Saxon to the margins of the island, to Wales, Cornwall and Strathclyde in Scotland many left the island to settle in Brittany in France and Galicia Asturias and Armorica in northern Spain
This is totally inaccurate Anglo Saxon England' was far more advanced then this is trying to imply there so much information Available that contradicts this
I want so much to listen to this book, but the narrator makes me want to chew my wrists off. Surely they could find someone who could play characters properly?
That was a nice racist intro. Anyone who doubts the built-in unquestioned bigotry and glorification of colonization need only listen to it. And this is written by a supposedly well educated and literary man.
@@chikezienzewi9682 no ……you just made me feel much better about myself and extremely glad I’m not you…..seeing nasty right wing racial rhetoric in the most inoffensive of corners…..the origins of the English are to be celebrated not used in some ridiculous left wing crusade
It's not awfull, it's better than most. can you not follow a human voice? Try listening to beric the britan for 3 hours straight, THEN come back and see if you still think the voice is boring. It's not.
These Audio books are a fantastic addition to my virtual library. They make housework light, exercise less solitary and even serve as a great bedtime story. I so appreciate access to them.
I prefer the ones that don't spam the librivox ident every single chapter, otherwise those get seared into your brain if you really do listen while working, like I do.
Mm
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but something needs to be done on the mervian goldrn agr-Like my manu script!
The machinations of men throughout history is simply a template by which evil operates. Nothing new under the sun. Great story, great dialogue and narration. Caused me to read more history. Which is always a joy.
Stupid.
Originally published 130 year's ago, amazing! Gotta get more, of his books!
One of my favourites of Henty's books. I read all of them in my school and public library in the 60's and 70's for the First time. This Dragon and Raven, and lion of St Mark are possibly my favourites. With Lee in Virgina probably most difficult to read without really hanging on to "It was a different time!" With the Irish Brigade, and Lion of the North pretty good too.
I agree on The Dragon and the Raven being a good book! It's one of my favorites as well as well as William Wallace and the Bruce. I just started reading these books this year and will be glad to check out the other ones you mentioned.
Loved these stories as a child. Now at 31 I had almost forgot about them entirely. I couldn't remember the authors name, but I remembered The Young Carthaginian. That was one of my favorites. Along with Wulf and The Cat Of Bubastes
Saint George for England is another great book
@@jamananostar my favorite is With Wolfe in Montreal
The brotherhood exemplified in this book is outstanding 🏴♥️
although riddled with undercurrents of medieval racism and elitism
@@stevenclarke2559 boohoo 😭
whats wrong with racism?
Thats the basis for nationality.‼️
@@stevenclarke2559 and your comment is riddled with undercurrents of low testosterone, self loathing, and an impending menstrual cycle.
Fortunately, none of you people seem to reproduce; so the future is very conservative.
@steven clarke Christ , can't you people ever stop whining? Would you say the sane about a historic African Audiobook? Or The 570odd warring tribes in America?
@@stevenclarke2559 learn to loathe yourself less, mate :D
I'm a Norman! It's a very strong heritiage of mine, I'm related to all the famous kings and queens, and my last name is even Norman! I'm very proud that a low class person as myself can call back to such greats on Earth.
You are not low class
Sure you are you plebe
Hands down the best LibraVox narrator in the game.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz shut up. Have you even read beric the britan? no, you havn't.
There really is quite a large array of horrible narrators in their ranks
Peter Keeble yep
What a heroic tale. Truly an odyssey-esque historic excerpt.
A classic work of literature. So articulate. I enjoyed this tale very much. Thank, you.
Each chapter should be broken down on a time line rather than lapsed all into one. Here is a rough outline for every chapter from beginning to end. As an educator, this is helpful to have each chapter broken into parts. I hope this will be of help for those other facilitators also, using and incorporating into differentiated learning.
Chapter I- 36:54 END
Chapter II- 39:02 Begins
Chapter III- 1:11:38 Begins
Chapter IV- 1:47:29 Begins
back when this book was uploaded, such functionality wasnt available on youtube
😂😂🇲🇵MILin📧Nailz
Absolutely wonderful narration. My most heart felt thanks for the reading of this work.
are you insane? narrator is awful.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz No, you're the insane one. It was good.
Yes really amazing !
An entertaining reading and a terrific story from over a century ago, he must have researched well. I assume it was popular in it's day, I found it wonderful in this time of computer research and archaeological study. A true delight in this world of electrical fantasy...
@@mjonhouston Wulf the Saxon was written in 1895. Henty died in 1902.
@@mjonhouston yes, a whole century.
Its feels like an abridged version. But i love how it lets me fill in the detailes i catch this read through.
I thought this was fantastic
A thoroughly enjoyable and interesting listen
Lots of comments on the reading, love it as reading is Reading, sometimes books are performed and that’s ok too but sometimes reading is fine to
thank you for posting this , an enjoyable audio book.
As for William...
England was ahead of it's time, way ahead and William knew that.
Harold could have been the best king since Alfred the Great. William was a disaster, a tyrant who introduced the feudal system, in effect, mass slavery. But.
The Normans wrote the 'history'.
Absolutely spot on 👍
I love it so detailed information on the Saxon
Although had Harold not usurped the throne and William the bastard just inherited without the Battle
The saxon kingdom would have remained pretty much the same
But with all those barons including French ( not all were Norman) owning places building castles & ruling like demi kings
It was awful for the saxons & saxon England
I think only 2 maybe 3 saxon nobles kept their land.
Saxon law everyone had a value
Norman law there barons owned the people who has little or no rights at all after the invasion.
Such a shame, I love the saxon era .
@@kevcaratacus9428 It was worse for the Celts
@@helenpain4595 worse how ?
I appreciate the shortened librivox intro. Those that take 30 seconds every chapter are irritating and I often skip listening to those uploads entirely
They really can be a deal breaker
All the complaints about the reader! Do you use different voices when you read a book? I don't. Or do people read books anymore? I do.
Actually totally irritates me AF if different people read book, as you say if i read i am used to obe voice in my head also, shizos.
For dialogue yeah? So you just read a fat 80 year old mans voice in your head the same as a 4 year old girl? Sounds like you don't have much imagination.
I’m not 6 yrs old. I prefer a singular voice such as a BOOK being read; it’s not a play.
That narrator is great. I’ve heard all of the GA Henty Audiobooks and he is by far one of the better narrators
I wish more people did read, I try and have a chat with people at work...they look at me with horror if I ask them do they read books...very sad...
I'm enjoying this book. Just a side note though. I was brought up in Steyning (Wulf's holding in West Sussex,) and we call it STENing. STAYning is a common mispronunciation. Although, to be fair, if the author researched the subject well, it might be that Stayning is an old pronunciation. It's an interesting little town. It had a mint in the time of Edward the confessor and coins from his reign have been found there. It was also an important port at that time but the river silted up in later Medieval times therefore it lost that prominence.
Thank you so much for this.
a thing of beauty
Awesome audiobook ❤
best libravox ive heard amazing reading top content
Thank you for the program
Enjoyed this . Thanks.
Quite funny that learning foreign languages help's you to find some jewels of literature that are unseen in your mother land.
Where are you from? Russia? Poland?
Chapter 2 38:13
Chapter 3 1:11:48
Chapter 4 1:47:38
Chapter 5 2:20:11
Chapter 6 2:53:33
Excellent writing and narration
But So #DATED🫣📛💭
@@mrmarmellow555 We call such material, "classic."
really enjoyed the narration
What a good book, if i come to find a copy i will buy just to read it for real lol
well written and well read! good stuff.
"...Well-Hung and Snow-White Tan..."
@@mjonhouston bruh
@@shoolima7131... it's "brah",...I'm from Hawaii. :-)
@@mjonhouston lol
noice
Thank you for making this video. i have to read this book for school and this has helped me immensely.
My Channel: Wulf the Saxon (FULL Audiobook)
Naa, going back to the Bernard Cornwall audio books..
those are fiction
@@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately I like the books.
Some things are fact.
He tells all the fictional bits at the end of the book
Really appreciated the read ..I recently listened to a similar story but narrators were women with faint voices . One heavy Asian accent. The book was under Drakes flag
Shame wasn't a bit more work gone into character voices. Check out the warlord trilogy
Saxon pov. I have to keep reminding myself so as not to feel annoyed when he writes about the Welsh.😄
Best at x1.25 speed.
I tried it & u r right... ty
So much better that way.
@@splintersparten9989 yeh man. I was welding one day, listening, and almost fell asleep. Sped it up and was very engaged.
@@Leman.Russ.6thLegion I completely understand, I'm running a CNC routing table and about dosed off myself.
@@splintersparten9989 lol. Stay safe
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Slow at times but an interesting examination of early England and France and a mentorshop of the highest order.
Seems like an interesting story. Narration is pretty monotone though.
There's something really sad about two groups of Christian men fighting and killing reach other is very tragic, that should never happen. I know it does and it will go on, but sad none the less.
Good vocal's
Starts 2:53
Thank you for putting the "civilizer of the world" crap in the first few seconds, sparing me the rest of the book.
I think I put more enthusiasm in reading my kids bedtime stories than this narrator. Can barely tell difference between characters
Clark Wilson Come back when you can do 1/100th of what Peter Keeble can do. He is one of the best Librivox narrators and I hope he does more GA Henty's works. Peter is a maestro just as is GA Henry.
2:57 chapter 1
38:00chapter 2
1:11:37 chapter 3
2:20:00. chapter 5
1:47:21 chapter 4
2:53:13 chapter 6
... 1,25x sounds more like it . . .
🙏🏼
Could someone write a list of the chapters with their time stamps?
Have at it.
Testing 123
Lee Richard Harris Matthew Brown Joseph
Good story but the narrators voice is so monotone he puts me to sleep.
That's why I'm here.
So is the author telling us the English are basically a mix of Germans and French? I always thought these were the hated enemy of England. It makes me wonder what happened to the British people ?
Snaggle Toothed thanks for info. Am i correct in saying the English commoners weren't replaced by French only the masters were French?. I'm assuming the hatred of the French was from the common folk against brutal Norman overlords.
Grandson of Sam NiFDy the normans spoke french but genetically they were Vikings
the norman were the ancestors of norsemen that had conquered normandy a part of france that took its name from the norsemen. the french could not beat them so the king of france gave them the provence to keep the peace .which after the norman conquered england led to war with france because the norman kings of england would not give up their lands in france.
@Gunnar Odinson yes the franks were a germanic tribe.
The Saxon devastated the original Britains, drove most of the rest, who they called"Welsh" which means enemy in the Saxon to the margins of the island, to Wales, Cornwall and Strathclyde in Scotland many left the island to settle in Brittany in France and Galicia Asturias and Armorica in northern Spain
10:29:51
Hernandez Joseph Williams Laura Johnson Elizabeth
This is totally inaccurate Anglo Saxon England' was far more advanced then this is trying to imply there so much information Available that contradicts this
"Action & Adventure Fiction" ,...nobody said this was "accurate",...it's FICTION!
No-one will suppose you're an expert on history with the name of a street thug. Just sayin'...
@@mjonhouston I never have understood why people don't get the fiction part!
@michael pennington Really?,...THAT long ago?
❤️ the narrator!!
Great recording. Some of the pronunciations are wrong.
• stuck mode...
Wilson Donna Hernandez Helen Garcia Helen
Miller Eric Walker Eric Walker David
Gonzalez Jose Lee Linda Williams Susan
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I want so much to listen to this book, but the narrator makes me want to chew my wrists off. Surely they could find someone who could play characters properly?
maybe attacking the Welch in winter WOULD have worked., ...the Welch would be leaving footprints in the snow.,...we'll never know now. :-(
Welsh
@@malteseowl typos happen dude.
@@shoolima7131 He did it twice so no typo.
'Welch' means to renege on a bet or challenge! However, for some reason the 'welch fusilleers' used that form? 🤔
That was a nice racist intro. Anyone who doubts the built-in unquestioned bigotry and glorification of colonization need only listen to it. And this is written by a supposedly well educated and literary man.
Oh dear, were you offended? Do you want to have a little cry?
Snowflakes everywhere
My goodness…..what an utterly joyless individual you are
@@Danny-hp9fx Oh, did I hit a nerve? Good
@@chikezienzewi9682 no ……you just made me feel much better about myself and extremely glad I’m not you…..seeing nasty right wing racial rhetoric in the most inoffensive of corners…..the origins of the English are to be celebrated not used in some ridiculous left wing crusade
16:05
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Awful narrating. I cant listen to this any longer and its been 15 minutes.
Seems your in a minority with that opinion
How do you think it is awful narrating??!
It's not awfull, it's better than most. can you not follow a human voice? Try listening to beric the britan for 3 hours straight, THEN come back and see if you still think the voice is boring. It's not.
@@shoolima7131 that's for sure! Boric the Briton has a boring narration... great story though.
@@shitty250r Yeah, it was worse than most
Rubbish
Slow at times but an interesting examination of early England and France and a mentorshop of the highest order.
7:00:00
05:31:00
Slow at times but an interesting examination of early England and France and a mentorshop of the highest order.
1:53:26
1:23:30
Slow at times but an interesting examination of early England and France and a mentorshop of the highest order.
Slow at times but an interesting examination of early England and France and a mentorshop of the highest order.