Alfred the GreatMacmillan & Company, 1869 - 334 pages |
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Page 64
... camp . But help for the vanquished was at hand . The other division of the Pagans , in which were now five kings - Guthrum , Bagsac , Oskytal , Halfdene , and Amund - and the jarls Hinguar and Hubba , Frene , and the two Sidrocs ...
... camp . But help for the vanquished was at hand . The other division of the Pagans , in which were now five kings - Guthrum , Bagsac , Oskytal , Halfdene , and Amund - and the jarls Hinguar and Hubba , Frene , and the two Sidrocs ...
Page 71
... camp in which their spoils and the women and wounded could be left , and by which their ships could lie . Any reader who has travelled on the Great Western Railway has crossed the very spot , a few hundred yards east of the station ...
... camp in which their spoils and the women and wounded could be left , and by which their ships could lie . Any reader who has travelled on the Great Western Railway has crossed the very spot , a few hundred yards east of the station ...
Page 74
... camp the song of Regner Lodbrog beguiling the night watches : - " We fought with swords ! Young men should march up to the conflict of arms . Man should meet man and never give ground . In this hath ever stood the nobleness of the ...
... camp the song of Regner Lodbrog beguiling the night watches : - " We fought with swords ! Young men should march up to the conflict of arms . Man should meet man and never give ground . In this hath ever stood the nobleness of the ...
Page 78
... done so , were Ethelred and Alfred likely to have followed , leaving the entrenched camp at Reading in their rear , and their own homes open to the garrison . However , at the place called Merton by 78 LIFE OF ALFRED THE GREAT .
... done so , were Ethelred and Alfred likely to have followed , leaving the entrenched camp at Reading in their rear , and their own homes open to the garrison . However , at the place called Merton by 78 LIFE OF ALFRED THE GREAT .
Page 80
... camp at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet , and fresh bands of marauders sailing up the former river , and constantly swelling the ranks of the pagan army during these summer months , there was neither time nor heart amongst the ...
... camp at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet , and fresh bands of marauders sailing up the former river , and constantly swelling the ranks of the pagan army during these summer months , there was neither time nor heart amongst the ...
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