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... Hubba Stone , a huge barrow amongst the sandhills by the estuary ( now swept away by the tide ) , enshrined for eight centuries the name and the bones of the pirate chief here slaughtered . ' ' And there was taken their war - flag which ...
... Hubba Stone , a huge barrow amongst the sandhills by the estuary ( now swept away by the tide ) , enshrined for eight centuries the name and the bones of the pirate chief here slaughtered . ' ' And there was taken their war - flag which ...
Page 110
... down , then , before it , thinking that the folk 1 Probably the famous Hubba . 2 Traditionally , near Bideford . But see Gaimar , L. 3141 . within must speedily surrender , under stress of hunger , 110 Alfred in the Chroniclers.
... down , then , before it , thinking that the folk 1 Probably the famous Hubba . 2 Traditionally , near Bideford . But see Gaimar , L. 3141 . within must speedily surrender , under stress of hunger , 110 Alfred in the Chroniclers.
Page 111
... Hubba , the daughters , sooth to say , of Lodbrock , wove that banner , and made it all wholly ready between morn and night in one single day . They say too that in every fight , wherein that flag went before them , if they were to win ...
... Hubba , the daughters , sooth to say , of Lodbrock , wove that banner , and made it all wholly ready between morn and night in one single day . They say too that in every fight , wherein that flag went before them , if they were to win ...
Page 143
... [ Hubba ] the brother of Ingwar and Halfdene with 23 ships unto Devonshire in Wessex . And there was he slain , - and 840 of his folk with him ; and there was taken the war - flag which they called the Raven.3 After this , at Easter ...
... [ Hubba ] the brother of Ingwar and Halfdene with 23 ships unto Devonshire in Wessex . And there was he slain , - and 840 of his folk with him ; and there was taken the war - flag which they called the Raven.3 After this , at Easter ...
Page 161
... that winter . 1 This is against the earlier authorities . But Gaimar must have known something of the same tradition , when he makes the Danes find and bury Hubba ( v . , 314 ) . M § 11. Then , the next year [ 885 ] Ethelwerd 161.
... that winter . 1 This is against the earlier authorities . But Gaimar must have known something of the same tradition , when he makes the Danes find and bury Hubba ( v . , 314 ) . M § 11. Then , the next year [ 885 ] Ethelwerd 161.
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