The Conquest of EnglandMacmillan, 1883 - 636 pages |
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... head , decked with laurel and rosemary , recalled the sacrifice of the boar to Frigga at the Midwinter feast of the old heathendom . The Autumn - Feast lingered on un- challenged in the village harvest - home with the sheaf , in old ...
... head , decked with laurel and rosemary , recalled the sacrifice of the boar to Frigga at the Midwinter feast of the old heathendom . The Autumn - Feast lingered on un- challenged in the village harvest - home with the sheaf , in old ...
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... head had its own social rights . Bishop , priest , lesser clerk , had each his legal " wer as well as king , thegn , ceorl . The churchmen formed a distinct element in the state , an element to which in num- bers , wealth , influence ...
... head had its own social rights . Bishop , priest , lesser clerk , had each his legal " wer as well as king , thegn , ceorl . The churchmen formed a distinct element in the state , an element to which in num- bers , wealth , influence ...
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... head the survival of the village - moot which had been the nucleus of our early life . 1 Pilgrimages . Without , the new faith brought England for the first time , as we have seen , into religious contact with the western world through ...
... head the survival of the village - moot which had been the nucleus of our early life . 1 Pilgrimages . Without , the new faith brought England for the first time , as we have seen , into religious contact with the western world through ...
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... head to the west , his feet to the east , upon his shield , if he have it ; and let him drive deep his lance , and hang there his arms , and to it rein in the dead man's steed ; and let him go to the nearest vill and declare his deed to ...
... head to the west , his feet to the east , upon his shield , if he have it ; and let him drive deep his lance , and hang there his arms , and to it rein in the dead man's steed ; and let him go to the nearest vill and declare his deed to ...
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... head by any man who met him.1 But beyond this general hostility the folk had no means of forcing such an offender to submit to its judgment . A yet weightier obstacle to efficient justice was often found in the course of procedure ...
... head by any man who met him.1 But beyond this general hostility the folk had no means of forcing such an offender to submit to its judgment . A yet weightier obstacle to efficient justice was often found in the course of procedure ...
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Page 179 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales
Page 186 - Alfred out of the narrow bounds of Wessex. If the sphere of his action seems too small to justify the comparison of him with the few whom the world owns as its greatest men, he rises to their level in the moral grandeur of his life. And it is this which has hallowed his memory among his own English people. "I desire," said the King in some of his latest words, "I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
Page 325 - And 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. Let this ordinance, nevertheless, be common to all the people, whether English, Danes, or Britons, on every side of my dominion.
Page 385 - When King Olaf saw that the scattered forces of the enemy gathered themselves together under the banners of their ships, he asked, "Who is the chief of the force right opposite to us?" He was answered, that it was King Svein with the Danish army.
Page 408 - ... northwards. Then were all the witan summoned to the king ; and they were then to counsel how this land might be defended. But although something might then be counselled, it did not stand even one month.
Page 146 - I rejected them, by the counsel of my ' witan,' and in otherwise commanded them to be holden ; for I durst not venture to set down in writing much of my own, for it was unknown to me what of it would please those who should come after us. But those things which I met with...
Page 175 - Latin with simple verse, solacing himself in hours of depression with the music of the Psalms. He passed from court and study to plan buildings and instruct craftsmen in gold-work, to teach even falconers and dog-keepers their business.
Page 136 - ceorl" thrived, so that he had fully five hides of his own land, church and kitchen, bell-house and "burh"gate-seat, and special duty in the king's hall, then was he thenceforth of thane-right worthy.
Page 436 - God to lead a right life in all things," wrote the King, " to rule justly and piously my realms and subjects, and to administer just judgment to all. If heretofore I have done aught beyond what was just, through headiness or negligence of youth, I am ready with God's help to amend it utterly.
Page 379 - ... his wound was healed in seven days. Then Olaf perceived that the man had spoken truth, — that he was a true fortune-teller, and had the gift of prophecy. Olaf went once more to the hermit, and asked particularly how he came to have such wisdom in foreseeing things to be. The hermit replied, that the Christian's God himself let him know all that he desired ; and he brought before Olaf many great proofs of the power of the Almighty. In consequence of this encouragement Olaf agreed to let himself...