Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... Northumbria , 103 - The Kingdom of Mercia , 105 - The Boundary of Wales , 107 - The King's Scaur , 109 - The Story of the Cave , III . XI . THE FIRST FOUR BRETWALDAS ( ELLE , CEAWLIN , ETHELBERT , REDWALD ) 112-119 Bretwalda , Britannia ...
... Northumbria , 103 - The Kingdom of Mercia , 105 - The Boundary of Wales , 107 - The King's Scaur , 109 - The Story of the Cave , III . XI . THE FIRST FOUR BRETWALDAS ( ELLE , CEAWLIN , ETHELBERT , REDWALD ) 112-119 Bretwalda , Britannia ...
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... NORTHUMBRIAN BRETWALDAS 132-139 Peaceful Britain , 133 - Oswald kneels to the Cross , 135- Defeat of Penda , 137 - The History of Northumbria ends , 139 . XIV . THE SUPREMACY OF MERCIA · • 140-150 Ethelred and Ceolred , 141 - Edilhun ...
... NORTHUMBRIAN BRETWALDAS 132-139 Peaceful Britain , 133 - Oswald kneels to the Cross , 135- Defeat of Penda , 137 - The History of Northumbria ends , 139 . XIV . THE SUPREMACY OF MERCIA · • 140-150 Ethelred and Ceolred , 141 - Edilhun ...
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... as vetus Anglia , " Old England . We have in this a stili older England than the country which now commonly bears the name . 3 Norfolk and Suffolk . THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBRIA . 103 have been one Uffa 102 THE ENGLISH CONQUEST .
... as vetus Anglia , " Old England . We have in this a stili older England than the country which now commonly bears the name . 3 Norfolk and Suffolk . THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBRIA . 103 have been one Uffa 102 THE ENGLISH CONQUEST .
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... Northumbria . The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , which is commonly very sparing of all notices of the doing of the Angles , records , under 547 , " in this year Ida assumed the kingdom , from whom came the royal race of Northumbrians ...
... Northumbria . The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , which is commonly very sparing of all notices of the doing of the Angles , records , under 547 , " in this year Ida assumed the kingdom , from whom came the royal race of Northumbrians ...
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... Northumbria , he had estab- lished Edwin , the fifth Bretwalda , on the throne of that kingdom . Of this battle we shall hear more hereafter . But the politics of the English kingdoms are now becoming so closely connected with the ...
... Northumbria , he had estab- lished Edwin , the fifth Bretwalda , on the throne of that kingdom . Of this battle we shall hear more hereafter . But the politics of the English kingdoms are now becoming so closely connected with the ...
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afterwards Alfred Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archbishop army Athelstan attack Author battle Bede Bishop Bretwalda Britain British Britons brother Cæsar called camp Canute Carausius Caswallon cavalry chief Christian Church cloth coast command conquest Crown 8vo Danes Danish daughter death defeated Demy 8vo died dominions Dunstan Earl East Anglia edition Edmund Edric Edward Egbert Emperor enemy England English king Ethelbald Ethelbert Ethelred Ethelwulf fight fled fleet force fought Gaul Godwin hand Harold Harold Hardrada hear held Hengist invaders island Kent King's kingdom land legions London married Mercia monastery native nobles Norman Normandy Northmen Northumbria Pagans peace Penda plunder prince probably ravaged reign Roman Rome sailed says the Chronicler seems sent ships slain soldiers story Suetonius Sussex Sweyn Tacitus Thames throne told took Tostig town tribes troops victory Vortigern Wales wall Welsh Wessex West Saxons William William of Malmesbury
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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.