Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... coast , or , at least , part of the coast , in which the traveller saw wheat growing . ' This wheat , " the traveller says , " the natives threshed , not on open floors , but in barns , because they had so little sunshine and so much ...
... coast , or , at least , part of the coast , in which the traveller saw wheat growing . ' This wheat , " the traveller says , " the natives threshed , not on open floors , but in barns , because they had so little sunshine and so much ...
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... coast by another people which , in search of adventure or booty , had crossed over from Belgic Gaul . This people , he tells us , still retained the names by which its various tribes were known on the mainland . So far we may consider ...
... coast by another people which , in search of adventure or booty , had crossed over from Belgic Gaul . This people , he tells us , still retained the names by which its various tribes were known on the mainland . So far we may consider ...
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... coast , but the quantity of this is but small . They have timber of all the kinds found in Gaul except the fir and the beech . They hold it unlawful to eat hare , chicken , or goose . Still they rear these animals for the sake of ...
... coast , but the quantity of this is but small . They have timber of all the kinds found in Gaul except the fir and the beech . They hold it unlawful to eat hare , chicken , or goose . Still they rear these animals for the sake of ...
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... coast , he observed , was lined with armed forces of natives , and the " hills " ( by which , doubtless , he means cliffs ) were so near to the sea , that a javelin could easily be thrown from them on to the shore . The place therefore ...
... coast , he observed , was lined with armed forces of natives , and the " hills " ( by which , doubtless , he means cliffs ) were so near to the sea , that a javelin could easily be thrown from them on to the shore . The place therefore ...
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... coast for some distance to the westward . Here they attempted to anchor , but the sea was too rough , and they were compelled to return to Gaul . The same night another disaster happened to the expedition . It was the time of the full ...
... coast for some distance to the westward . Here they attempted to anchor , but the sea was too rough , and they were compelled to return to Gaul . The same night another disaster happened to the expedition . It was the time of the full ...
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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.