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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... Sandwich in Kent , and took nine ships , and put the others to flight . And the heathen men , for the first time , took up their quarters over winter in Thanet . And in the same year came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of ...
... Sandwich in Kent , and took nine ships , and put the others to flight . And the heathen men , for the first time , took up their quarters over winter in Thanet . And in the same year came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of ...
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... Sandwich , and so thence to Ipswich , and ravaged all over it ; and so to Maldon ; and the aldorman Brihtnoth came against him with his force , and fought against him ; and they there slew the aldorman , and had possession of the place ...
... Sandwich , and so thence to Ipswich , and ravaged all over it ; and so to Maldon ; and the aldorman Brihtnoth came against him with his force , and fought against him ; and they there slew the aldorman , and had possession of the place ...
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... Sandwich , and did all as was before their wont , harried , and burned , and slew as they went . Then the king commanded all the population of Wessex and of Mercia to be called out ; and they then lay all the autumn in readiness against ...
... Sandwich , and did all as was before their wont , harried , and burned , and slew as they went . Then the king commanded all the population of Wessex and of Mercia to be called out ; and they then lay all the autumn in readiness against ...
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... Sandwich , and were there to lie and hold this country against every foreign army . But we had not yet the happiness nor the honour , that the naval force should be useful to this country , more than it had often before been . It befel ...
... Sandwich , and were there to lie and hold this country against every foreign army . But we had not yet the happiness nor the honour , that the naval force should be useful to this country , more than it had often before been . It befel ...
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... Sandwich , and soon went their way to Canterbury , and would soon have subdued the town , if they the more speedily had not craved peace of them . And all the East Kentish made peace with the army , and gave them three thousand pounds ...
... Sandwich , and soon went their way to Canterbury , and would soon have subdued the town , if they the more speedily had not craved peace of them . And all the East Kentish made peace with the army , and gave them three thousand pounds ...
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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...