The Conquest of EnglandMacmillan, 1884 - 636 pages |
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... land . The hundred - moots gather at barrow or den , at burn or ford , in comb or vale , in glade or woodland , here beside some huge boulder or stone , there on the line of a primæval foss - dyke , or beneath some mighty and sacred ...
... land . The hundred - moots gather at barrow or den , at burn or ford , in comb or vale , in glade or woodland , here beside some huge boulder or stone , there on the line of a primæval foss - dyke , or beneath some mighty and sacred ...
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... land began . Dorchester tells of the new life growing up on the Roman ruins , Knolton and Gillingham of the new " tons " and " hams " which rose about the settlements of the conquerors ; while Beaminster , Yetminster , and Christchurch ...
... land began . Dorchester tells of the new life growing up on the Roman ruins , Knolton and Gillingham of the new " tons " and " hams " which rose about the settlements of the conquerors ; while Beaminster , Yetminster , and Christchurch ...
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... land lay waste , pastures stretched along the lower slopes of the moorland , whose herbage , though too rough and broken for the scythe , gave fair grazing ground to the herds of the township , while by stream and river ran the meadow - ...
... land lay waste , pastures stretched along the lower slopes of the moorland , whose herbage , though too rough and broken for the scythe , gave fair grazing ground to the herds of the township , while by stream and river ran the meadow - ...
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... land . " " It is a strong testimony to the age of this account that the Wikings are called Northmen , for this name was lost in England earlier than else- where . " " The so - called Heretha - land , " he adds , " from which these ...
... land . " " It is a strong testimony to the age of this account that the Wikings are called Northmen , for this name was lost in England earlier than else- where . " " The so - called Heretha - land , " he adds , " from which these ...
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... land , and there are such great uninhabited forests in it that it is a journey of many days to cross them . Onund bestowed great pains and cost in clearing the woods and tilling the cleared land . ... Onund had roads made through all ...
... land , and there are such great uninhabited forests in it that it is a journey of many days to cross them . Onund bestowed great pains and cost in clearing the woods and tilling the cleared land . ... Onund had roads made through all ...
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