ABSTRACT
What's the interest in Melpham, anyhow? Stokesay said all there was to say about it. How does it go? "We may seareh all the annals of the English eonversion until the end of time before we find a spirit so strange, a eharaeter so enigmatie as Eorpwald, the Janus-headed missionary of East Folk. This man, so learned, so eredulous ... ' 1 forget how it goes on. 1 had a wonderful memory onee. Could reeite you hundreds of the old man's purple passages. But you'll find it all in his Conversion 0/ England; the serious stuff's in the E.H.J. for '13, and he wrote it up again in '22.'
