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... CANUTE 295-310 Danegelt of £ 82,500 , 297 - Canute's Journey to Rome , 299— Organization of the House Carles , 301 - Canute favours the Church , 303 — Ely , 305 — Death of Canute , 307 — Anecdotes of Cnut , 309 . THE SONS OF CANUTE ...
... CANUTE 295-310 Danegelt of £ 82,500 , 297 - Canute's Journey to Rome , 299— Organization of the House Carles , 301 - Canute favours the Church , 303 — Ely , 305 — Death of Canute , 307 — Anecdotes of Cnut , 309 . THE SONS OF CANUTE ...
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... Canute . Her son was Edward the Confessor . 3 We may compare the fate of Mithradates , who in 88 B.C. ordered the massacre of all the Roman citizens then residing in Asia , and the disastrous results of the Sicilian vespers ( A.D. 1282 ) ...
... Canute . Her son was Edward the Confessor . 3 We may compare the fate of Mithradates , who in 88 B.C. ordered the massacre of all the Roman citizens then residing in Asia , and the disastrous results of the Sicilian vespers ( A.D. 1282 ) ...
Page 286
... Canute and that warrior- saint , Olaf of Norway , whom he probably brought with him because he was unwilling to leave him behind . The fleet touched at Sandwich , but then , by a change of policy in the Danish king , sailed northwards ...
... Canute and that warrior- saint , Olaf of Norway , whom he probably brought with him because he was unwilling to leave him behind . The fleet touched at Sandwich , but then , by a change of policy in the Danish king , sailed northwards ...
Page 287
... Canute as his successor , bade him study the doctrines of Christianity , I February 2nd . and strictly enjoined on him to carry away his body state of the Country, 283-Forty-eight Thousand Pounds Ransom, 285-Sweyn virtually King of ...
... Canute as his successor , bade him study the doctrines of Christianity , I February 2nd . and strictly enjoined on him to carry away his body state of the Country, 283-Forty-eight Thousand Pounds Ransom, 285-Sweyn virtually King of ...
Page 288
... Canute . But he was not to become King of England without a long and fierce struggle . The bishops and nobles met in assembly , and resolved to call Ethelred back to his throne . " No lord , " they said in the letter they sent to him ...
... Canute . But he was not to become King of England without a long and fierce struggle . The bishops and nobles met in assembly , and resolved to call Ethelred back to his throne . " No lord , " they said in the letter they sent to him ...
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Page 217 - But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians, or of Ethelbert, who first among the English race received baptism, those which seemed to me the rightest, those I have here gathered together, and rejected the others.
Page 158 - Go on quickly, I know not how long I shall hold out, and whether my Maker will not soon take me away.
Page 112 - Beda's list comprises Ella of Sussex, Ceawlin of Wessex, Ethelbert of Kent, Redwald of East Anglia, and Edwin, Oswald, and Oswy, of Northumbria. THE SAXON ERA.
Page 160 - Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also, sitting, call upon my Father ! And thus, on the pavement of his little cell, singing : ' Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; ' when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Page 157 - ... nights and days, From Heaven to Hell, where the Lord changed them all To Devils, because they his Deed and Word Refused to worship. Therefore in worse light Under the earth beneath, Almighty God Had placed them triumphless in the swart HelL There evening, immeasurably long, Brings to each fiend renewal of the fire; Then comes, at dawn, the east wind keen with frost Its dart, or fire continual, torment sharp, The punishment wrought for them they must bear.