The Wanderlight Chronicles – Coming Soon
Book 1. The Green Children.
From the Historia Rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh, Augustinian Canon of Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire. Written circa 1196–1198.
During the reign of King Stephen, there was found in the county of Suffolk, near the village called Woolpit, from which it takes its name, a boy and a girl, unknown to any man, who had crept forth from the excavations which the people there dig for the catching of wolves. Their whole bodies were of a green colour. Their clothing was fashioned from a material of an unknown kind. Bewildered by the strangeness of what they saw, they wept. They were brought to the house of a certain knight, Richard de Calne, and kept there. They would eat nothing. Though much food was set before them, they refused it all, and for several days grew weak with hunger. …
