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" Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's wife ; which stigma, the elders of that land say, arose from a certain obstinate and malevolent queen of the same nation, who did all things so contrary... "
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ... - Page 21
by Alfred (King of England) - 1852
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from his father, by his own side on the regal throne, without...perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's...
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 542 pages
...not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from his father, by his own side on the regal throne, without...perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's...
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Six Old English Chronicles

John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 572 pages
...end of his life, contrary to the perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to...called a queen, but only the king's wife ; which stigma the elders of that land say arose from a certain obstinate and malevolent queen of the same nation,...
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The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The ...

1854 - 438 pages
...done without any hostility or objection from his nobles, even to the end of his life, in defiance of the perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West Saxons does not permit a queen to sit beside the king, nor does it allow even the appellation of " queen,"...
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The Church historians of England, tr. by J. Stevenson, Volume 2, Part 2

England - 1854 - 444 pages
...done without any hostility or objection from his nobles, even to the end of his life, in defiance of the perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West Saxons does not permit a queen to sit beside the king, nor does it allow even the appellation of " queen,"...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 1

Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 598 pages
...counsel, so wished things to be done, that the kingdom might not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from...perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's...
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Memorials of King Alfred: Being Essays on the History and Antiquities of ...

John Allen Giles - 1863 - 416 pages
...counsel, so wished things to be done, that the kingdom might not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from...perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's...
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from his father, by his own side on the regal throne, without...perverse custom of that nation. For the nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's...
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Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment

Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1888 - 170 pages
...counsel, so wished things to be done, that the kingdom might not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of King Charles, whom he had received from...life, contrary to the perverse custom of that nation." With the statement concerning the rejoicing, the English Chronicle substantially agrees. Again, it...
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Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker

1891 - 914 pages
...enthusiasm on the part of the nation in regard to Judith, for we learn: ,,and he placed Judith ... on the regal throne, without any controversy or enmity...life, contrary to the perverse custom of that nation*. This is surely little whereon to base the epithets „the pride, the hope, the darling of the nation"....
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