The Conquest of EnglandHarper & Bros., 1884 - 607 pages |
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Ælfred Æthelred Æthelstan Æthelweard Alfred Archbishop Asser Athelney attack Bernicia Bishop Boroughs Britain CHAP Chron Chronicle Church Cnut Cnut's coast Conquest court crown Danelaw Danes Danish death Deira district dormen duke Dunstan Eadgar Eadmund Eadward ealdorman earl earldom East Anglia Ecgberht Elfred England English king Englishmen Ethelwulf fight fleet folk-moot force frith fyrd gathered Gaul Gest Godwine Godwine's Guthrum hands Harald Harthacnut Hist host Ibid Introd Ireland jarls Kent king's kingdom land later London lord Mercia Mid-Britain nobles Norman Normandy northern Northmen Northumbria Norway Olaf peace pirates political raids realm reign royal rule ruler Saga Saxon Scot seems settlement ships shire showed strife struggle Stubbs supremacy Swein sword Thames thegn Thorpe throne tion town Watling Street Wedmore Welsh Wessex West West-Saxon whole Wikings Winch Winchester Wise Witan Witenagemot Worc
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Page 369 - What is that," cried King Olaf, " that broke with such a noise? " " Norway, king, from thy hands," cried Einar. " No! not quite so much as that," says the king; " take my bow, and shoot," flinging the bow to him. Einar took the bow, and drew it over the head of the arrow.
Page 122 - The King was in great anger, and seized a sword which lay beside him, and drew it, as if he was going to kill the child. Hauk says, " Thou hast borne him on thy knee, and thou canst murder him if thou wilt ; but thou wilt not make an end of all King Harald's sons by so doing.
Page 312 - I will that secular rights stand among the Danes with as good laws as they best may choose. But with the English, let that stand which I and my witan have added to the dooms of my forefathers, for the behoof of all the people.
Page 157 - Do not blame me," he prays with a charming simplicity, "if any know Latin better than I, for every man must say what he says and do what he does according to his ability.
Page 10 - And we earnestly forbid every heathenism ; heathenism is, that men worship idols, that is, that they worship heathen gods, and the sun or the moon, fire or rivers, water-wells or stones, or forest trees of any kind ; or love witchcraft, or promote ' morth'work in any wise ; or by ' blot,' or by ' fyrht ; or perform anything pertaining to such illusions.
Page 148 - When I considered all this I remembered also how I saw, before it had been all ravaged and burnt, how the churches throughout the whole of England stood filled with treasures and books, and there was also a great multitude of God's servants; but they had very little knowledge of the books, for they could not understand anything of them, because they were not written in their own language.
Page 179 - But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him which drove the nobler souls of his day to monastery or hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, his temper took no touch of asceticism.
Page 418 - to live a right life in all things ; to rule justly and piously my realms and subjects, and to administer just judgment to all. If heretofore I have done aught beyond what is just, through headiness or negligence of youth, I am ready, with God's help, to amend it utterly.
Page iii - READINGS FROM ENGLISH HISTORY. Selected and Edited by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, MA, LL.D., Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Three Parts. Globe 8vo.
Page 52 - Fair is the Lithe ; so fair that it has never seemed to me so fair ; the corn fields are white to harvest, and the home mead is mown ; and now I will ride back home, and not fare abroad at all.