The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, According to the Several Original Authorities, Volume 2; Volume 23, Part 2Benjamin Thorpe Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
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abbacy abbot Ælfred Æthelheard Æthelstân afterwards aldorman Angle race army Biörn body lies brother brought burgh buried burned castle Ceawlin Cênred Ceolwulf Cerdic Christ commanded count of Anjou count Robert Cuthred Cynegils Cynewulf Cynric Danish drove Eadbald Eadmund Eadwine Ealdred earl Godwine earl Harold earl Swegen earldom East Angles Easter Ecgbryht Edited England Ethelred flight Flor fought Freawine gathered God's hallowed harried Harthacnut holy hostages Humber jarl Kent Kentish king Ælfred king Cnut king Eadward king gave king Henry king William king's kingdom land London lord mass-day Mercians monastery monks naval force night Normandy Northumbrians Offa Olaf ordained pall peace Peter Peterborough pope Price ravaged reigned Rochester Rome Sandwich Scotland Scots sent ships shire slain slaughter slew South Saxons Stigand succeeded Svein Thames thanes thence therein thereto thither took Tostig town Wales Welsh West Saxons Westminster Wigorn Winchester winters witan Wulfhere York
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Page 190 - He planted a great preserve for deer, and he laid down laws therewith, that whosoever should slay hart or hind should be blinded. He forbade the harts and also the boars to be killed. As greatly did he love the tall deer as if he were their father.
Page 230 - They had done homage to him and sworn oaths, but held no faith ; for every powerful man made his castles and held them against him, and they filled the land full of castles. They cruelly oppressed the wretched men of the land with castle works. When the castles were made, they filled them with devils and evil men.
Page 122 - And within a little space they went to London, and they dug a great ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge...
Page 230 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 231 - ... could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate. The earth bare no corn; you might as well have tilled the sea, for the land was all ruined by such deeds...
Page 66 - And Marinus the pope then sent ' lignum Domini ' to king Alfred ; and that same year Sighelm and Athelstan carried to Rome the alms which the king had vowed to send thither, and also to India, to St. Thomas and to St. Bartholomew...