| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1890 - 610 pages
...mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market-place without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey,...service, and confirmed what he had done by a charter." 1 The modern version adds, in the Laureate's words : " And one low churl, compact of thankless earth,... | |
| Edwin Sidney Hartland - 1890 - 366 pages
...mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market-place, without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey,...the town of Coventry and its inhabitants from the 1 Rope of Wendover, Flowers of History, Dr. Giles' translation, sat anno 1057. aforesaid service, and... | |
| Edwin Sidney Hartland - 1891 - 402 pages
...mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market place without being seen, except her fair legs ; and having completed the journey,...service, and confirmed what he had done by a charter." ' According to the more modern version, the inhabitants 1 Roger of Wendover, " Flowers of History,"... | |
| Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1899 - 284 pages
...mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market-place without being seen, except her fair legs; and having completed the journey,...and confirmed what he had done by a charter." The apocryphal nature of this ride is proved amongst other things by the fact that no mention is made of... | |
| 1902 - 266 pages
...mounting her horse, and attended by two knights, she " rode through the market place without being seen, except her fair " legs, and having completed the journey,...service, and confirmed what he had done by a Charter." No mention of this ride is made by other and more trustworthy early writers, who narrate the many good... | |
| Julia de Wolf Addison - 1922 - 564 pages
...GODIVA. horse, and attended by two knights, she rode through the market place, without being seen, except her fair legs, and having completed the journey,...husband, and obtained of him what she had asked; for Leofric freed the town of Coventry and its inhabitants from the aforesaid service. ' ' Walter Savage... | |
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