The Norfolk Antiquarian MiscellanyWalter Rye Miller and Leavins, 1880 |
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Page 234 - PEACE. This is the peace that King Alfred and King Guthrum, and the ' witan' of all the English nation, and all the people that are in East Anglia, have all ordained and with oaths confirmed, for themselves and for their descendants, as well for born as for unborn, who reck of God's mercy or of ours.
Page 231 - A. 865. This year the heathen army sat down in Thanet, and made peace with the men of Kent, and the men of Kent promised them money for the peace ; and during the peace and the promise of money the army stole away by night, and ravaged all Kent to the eastward.
Page 228 - His exertions were much promoted by the Bishop Felix, who, coming to Honorius, the archbishop, from Burgundy, where he had been born and ordained, and having told him what he desired, he sent him to preach the word of life to the aforesaid nation of the Angles.
Page 234 - Concerning our land boundaries : Up on the Thames, and then up on the Lea, and along the Lea unto its source, then right to Bedford, then up on the Ouse unto Watling Street. 2. Then is this : If a man be slain, we estimate all equally dear, English and Danish, at viii. half marks of pure gold ; except the 'ceorl' who resides on 'gafol' land and their 'liesings;' they also are equally dear, either at cc.
Page 232 - This year the army again went to York, and sat there one year. A. 870. This year the army rode across Mercia into EastAnglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford : and the same winter king Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king, and subdued all the land, and destroyed all the minsters which they came to. The names of their chiefs who slew the king were Hingwar and Hubba.
Page 237 - Ulfcytel understood that, then sent he word that the ships should be hewed in pieces, but they in whom he trusted failed to do it, and he then gathered his forces secretly, as he best might. And the army then came to Thetford, within three weeks of their having before plundered Norwich, and were one day there within, and plundered and burned the town. And then on the morrow, as they would have gone to their ships, then came Ulfcytel with his band, in order that they might there join battle with them.
Page 232 - This year the army rode across Mercia into EastAnglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford ; and the same winter king Eadmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king, and subdued all the land, 'and destroyed all the minsters which they came to. "The names of their chiefs who slew the king were Ingwair and Ubba.
Page 238 - Canute was chosen king ; ... he obtained the whole realm of the English race, and divided it into four parts ; Wessex to himself, and East Anglia to Thurkill, and Mercia to Edric, and Northumbria. to Eric,
Page 219 - ALL Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.
Page 238 - And the Danes had possession of the place of 'carnage : and there were they horsed ; and afterwards had dominion over East-Anglia, and the land three months ravaged and burned ; and they even went into the wild fens, and they destroyed men and 'cattle, and burned throughout the fens : and Thetford they burned, and Grantabridge. And after that they went southward again...