 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 542 pages
...which is called Selwood,f which means in Latin Silva Magna, the Great Wood, but in British Coit-mawr. Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire,...day dawned, the king struck his camp, and went to Okely,J where he encamped for one night. The next morning he removed to Edington, and there fought... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...which is called Selwood,f which means in Latin Silva Magna, the Great Wood, but in British Coit-mawr. Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire,...day dawned, the king struck his camp, and went to Okely,J where he encamped for one night. The next morning he removed to Edington, and there fought... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 456 pages
...Malmesb. Heurici de Silgrave Chronicon, ed. C. Hook, 8vo. London 1848, pag. 45. folk of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, who had not for fear of...him, as he deserved, with joy and acclamations, and all encamped there for the night. The next morning, the king struck his tents, and went to JEcglea,... | |
 | 1854 - 296 pages
...illustration of the conversions to Christianity of those times. " Here he was met by all the neighboring folk, who had not, for fear of the pagans, fled beyond the...day dawned, the king struck his camp, and went to Okely, where he encamped for one night. The next morning he removed to Edington, and there fought bravely... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1854 - 452 pages
...Malmesb. Henrici de Silgrave Chronicon, ed. C. Hook, 8vo. London 1848, pag. 45. folk of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, who had not for fear of the Pagans fled beyond the sea c ; and, when they saw the king alive after such great tribulation, they received him, as he deserved,... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 598 pages
...eastern part of the wood which is called Selwood, which means in Latin Silva Magna, [the Great Wood]. Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire,...of the pagans, fled beyond the sea; and when they aaw the king alive after men great tribulation, they received him, as he deserved, with joy and acclamations,... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1863 - 428 pages
...of the king's pastures. Meanwhile, after the Easter! of that year, king Alfred t March 23, in 878. to meet him all the men of Somerset, and the men of...day dawned, the king struck his camp, and went to jEcglea, where he encamped for one night. The next morning he removed to Ethandun, and there fought... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1864 - 432 pages
...part of Selwood, or the Great Wo6d. Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, who had not, for fear of the pagans, fled beyond the sea. Once more he encountered his enemies, and with a success almost as marvellous as the vision of St.... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...which is called Selwood,f which means in Latin Silva Magna, the Great Wood, but in British Coit-mawr. Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire,...and Hampshire, who had not, for fear of the pagans, nod beyond the sea; and when they saw the king alive after such great tribulation, they received him,... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 458 pages
...poles of the well-armed hunters :2 it is implied in Aneurin's the neighbouring folk of Somerset Wilts and Hampshire who had not for fear of the pagans fled beyond the sea." Asser, Life of Alfred, under the year 878. Selwood reached from Frome to Burham. 1 Girald. Cambr. Topog.... | |
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Here he was met by all the neighbouring folk of Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, and Hampshire, who had not, for fear of the pagans, fled beyond the sea ; and when they saw the king alive after such great tribulation, they received him, as he deserved, with... 
