Wulnoth the Wanderer
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Wulnoth the Wanderer
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Athelney, a small spot at the confluence of the rivers Tone and Parret in Somersetshire.
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This jewel was found long afterwards, perfect and undefaced, and it is now preserved at Oxford. For eight hundred years it had lain in the peaty soil, just where the King must have dropped it.
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Although I have used it in my story, this beautiful reference was not made at this time. It was really spoken two hundred and fifty years before, on the introduction of Christianity into England.