The White Company Chapter 7 - How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands
In which three comrades rise early from a lively country inn and set forth through the autumn woodlands, sharing discourse on matters both practical and profound, including the strange penances of fla...
26 Juli 24min
The White Company Chapter 8 - The Three Friends
In which a chance encounter with a thumbless archer and his earnest sons provides a vivid discourse on the art of war and the bitter feuds that shape their world, set against the serene backdrop of En...
26 Juli 21min
The White Company Chapter 6 - How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed
In which a robust English bowman named Samkin Aylward returns home bearing spoils from his raids in France, regaling a humble company with tales of war, fellowship, and the spirited life of a soldier-...
25 Juli 26min
The White Company Chapter 5 - How a Strange Company Gathered at the "Pied Merlin"
In which Alleyne Edricson, a cloister-bred youth, finds refuge at a rustic inn on the forest's edge, encountering a motley company of foresters, craftsmen, and wayfarers who gather around the fire to ...
25 Juli 27min
The White Company Chapter 3 - How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington
In which a young clerk named Alleyne Edricson, newly free from the Abbey of Beaulieu, encounters a most singular and comical case of mistaken identity and costume-swapping involving a red-faced fuller...
24 Juli 12min
The White Company Chapter 4 - How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men
In which Alleyne, a young clerk journeying through the English countryside, encounters a variety of curious characters including lively tumblers and cruel rogues, leading him into a sudden and grim co...
24 Juli 27min
The White Company Chapter 1 - How the Black Sheep Came forth from the Fold
In which the strict and orderly life of the Abbey of Beaulieu is sharply disturbed by the unruly conduct of a brawny novice, whose defiance and unsanctioned encounter with a maiden bring scandal to th...
23 Juli 21min
The White Company Chapter 2 - How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World
In which a pious and skilled youth, nurtured within the tranquil abbey of Beaulieu, is tenderly but firmly sent forth into the wider world by the Abbot who imparts both counsel and blessing for the un...
23 Juli 13min
