Alfred the GreatMacmillan & Company, 1891 - 334 pages |
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Page 27
... Welsh Marches to the Isle of Wight , we find him moving backwards and forwards , wherever a raid of Britons or Danes , the consecration of a church , a quarrel between two of his aldermen , the assembly of his Great Council , might call ...
... Welsh Marches to the Isle of Wight , we find him moving backwards and forwards , wherever a raid of Britons or Danes , the consecration of a church , a quarrel between two of his aldermen , the assembly of his Great Council , might call ...
Page 30
... Welsh , and other prisoners of war , or men who had been sentenced to servitude . The laws were enforced by fine or corporal punishment , imprisonment being unknown in the earlier codes . Such as they were , the laws of the Anglo ...
... Welsh , and other prisoners of war , or men who had been sentenced to servitude . The laws were enforced by fine or corporal punishment , imprisonment being unknown in the earlier codes . Such as they were , the laws of the Anglo ...
Page 34
... Welsh . Then Ethelwulf marched himself against the Welsh with Buhred , and pursued their king , Roderic Mawr , to Anglesey , where he acknowledged Ethelwulf as his over - lord , who returning in triumph to Wessex , there at the royal ...
... Welsh . Then Ethelwulf marched himself against the Welsh with Buhred , and pursued their king , Roderic Mawr , to Anglesey , where he acknowledged Ethelwulf as his over - lord , who returning in triumph to Wessex , there at the royal ...
Page 57
... Welsh moun- tains and the Land's End . Three centuries earlier , the Arthur of British legend had fought the Saxons in the very districts which a yet greater English king is now to hold against as terrible odds . These Northmen ...
... Welsh moun- tains and the Land's End . Three centuries earlier , the Arthur of British legend had fought the Saxons in the very districts which a yet greater English king is now to hold against as terrible odds . These Northmen ...
Page 108
... Welsh coast , and landed in Devon . The news of the catastrophe at Chippenham , and of the disappearance of the King , was no doubt already known in the west ; and in the face of it Odda the alderman cannot gather strength to meet the ...
... Welsh coast , and landed in Devon . The news of the catastrophe at Chippenham , and of the disappearance of the King , was no doubt already known in the west ; and in the face of it Odda the alderman cannot gather strength to meet the ...
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