Alfred the GreatMacmillan & Company, 1891 - 334 pages |
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Page iii
... . 8c 7 I THE SECOND WAVE . CHAPTER VIII . CHAPTER IX . PREFACE Alabha CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . • CHAPTER III . CHILDHOOD CHAPTER IV . CNIHTHOOD CHAPTER V. THE DANE . CHAPTER VI . THE FIRST WAVE CHAPTER VII . . b 760168 942.01.
... . 8c 7 I THE SECOND WAVE . CHAPTER VIII . CHAPTER IX . PREFACE Alabha CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . • CHAPTER III . CHILDHOOD CHAPTER IV . CNIHTHOOD CHAPTER V. THE DANE . CHAPTER VI . THE FIRST WAVE CHAPTER VII . . b 760168 942.01.
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... Dane for ambush and stronghold . Christian monks , escaping from the sack of their abbeys and cathedrals , and carrying ... Danes seem always to have been able to strike in the beginning of their cam- paigns were made possible by these ...
... Dane for ambush and stronghold . Christian monks , escaping from the sack of their abbeys and cathedrals , and carrying ... Danes seem always to have been able to strike in the beginning of their cam- paigns were made possible by these ...
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... Danes , the consecration of a church , a quarrel between two of his aldermen , the assembly of his Great Council , might call him . The government lies indeed heavily on his shoulders . He must be the first man in fight , in council ...
... Danes , the consecration of a church , a quarrel between two of his aldermen , the assembly of his Great Council , might call him . The government lies indeed heavily on his shoulders . He must be the first man in fight , in council ...
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... Danes , and other disreputable persons , scattered up and down the land , that society must protect itself in a summary manner . This it did by laws which , up to Alfred's time , were administered under the king by aldermen . These ...
... Danes , and other disreputable persons , scattered up and down the land , that society must protect itself in a summary manner . This it did by laws which , up to Alfred's time , were administered under the king by aldermen . These ...
Page 33
... - manding in person in several pitched battles with the Danes , the most important of which was fought in 851 at a place in Surrey which the chroniclers call S. L. VIII . D Aclea ( the oak plain ) , and which is CHILDHOOD . 33.
... - manding in person in several pitched battles with the Danes , the most important of which was fought in 851 at a place in Surrey which the chroniclers call S. L. VIII . D Aclea ( the oak plain ) , and which is CHILDHOOD . 33.
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