The natives, pointing to the setting sun, told them to seek gold in the great lands that lay beyond. Columbus thought he had found India, but it was America. To these lands adventurers came to seek for treasure and soon to find a new home. SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 1. Find out from the pictures in the Saxon Calendar: (_a_) the occupations of the Saxons, (_b_) the instruments they used in farming, (_c_) the kind of dress they wore. (See Traill and Mann, _Social England_.) 2. Plan and build a Saxon village (in a sand tray or with clay, etc.). 3. Write down what you think the miller and the goose boy would say in the dialogue. 4. Describe a Saxon Hall. (Read descriptions in Beowulf and Ivanhoe.) 5. Look at some old manuscripts, if you can, and make some illuminated letters. 6. Build a monastery in cardboard, paper or clay. 7. Cut out in paper some figures of Saxons and make a procession on their way to Church to keep a festival. 8. Write the story of Alfred's messenger arriving at the monastery to borrow the chronicle for the King's use. 9. Make a piece of tapestry showing a scene from the history of the Normans. 10. What can you discover about the Normans from the pictures of the Bayeux Tapestry? 11. Find out about Hereward the Wake. 12. Build a castle and defend it. 13. Find out some more stories of S. Francis of Assisi. 14. Find out as many Norman French words in English as you can. 15. Read the tales of Robin Hood. 16. Cut out of paper some figures of soldiers and make a picture by pasting them on a large sheet, showing them landing in England after the victory at Crécy. 17. Find out about a tournament and make the lists. (See Scott's _Ivanhoe_.) 18. If there are any old buildings where you live, find out when they were built and who used them. 19. Make a subject-index to the book and arrange it in alphabetical order. 20. Make a date chart and illustrate it with pictures. BIBLIOGRAPHY _Social England_ (illustrated). Vols. I. and II. Ed. Traill and Mann (Cassell). _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle._ (_Everyman's Library._ Dent.) _The Chronicles of Froissart._ (Globe Edition. Macmillan.) _Grandes Chroniques de France._ Foucquet. Bibliothèque Nationale, Berthaud Frères. 5 fr. _Alfred the Great._ B. A. Lees. (_Heroes of the Nations._ Putnam.) _St Anselm._ R. W. Church. (Macmillan.) _English Monasteries._ A. H. Thompson. (_Cambridge Manuals._) _English Monastic Life._ F. A. Gasquet. (_Antiquary's Books._ Methuen.) _The Chronicle of Jocelind of Brakelond._ (_King's Classics._ Chatto and Windus.) _Chivalry._ F. W. Cornish. (Fisher Unwin.) _The Making of Ireland and its Undoing, 1200-1600._ Mrs J. R. Green. (Macmillan.) _Mediaeval Art._ W. R. Lethaby. (Duckworth.) _Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages._ J. J. Jusserand. (Fisher Unwin.) _Mediaeval England._ M. Bateson. (_The Story of the Nations._ Fisher Unwin.)