Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... passing . ( It was now about the middle of September . ) He was well aware that the Britons might , if they chose , protract the contest in a very inconvenient way . Accordingly he demanded a number of hostages ( insisting , this time ...
... passing . ( It was now about the middle of September . ) He was well aware that the Britons might , if they chose , protract the contest in a very inconvenient way . Accordingly he demanded a number of hostages ( insisting , this time ...
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... passing through the country of the Dobuni , with the Severn . Possibly the Med- way may be meant . Whatever was the river in question , the Romans crossed it unexpectedly , thanks to the skill of the Batavian cavalry in swimming . The ...
... passing through the country of the Dobuni , with the Severn . Possibly the Med- way may be meant . Whatever was the river in question , the Romans crossed it unexpectedly , thanks to the skill of the Batavian cavalry in swimming . The ...
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... passed it unobserved in a fog , landed in Britain , and to make retreat impossible , burnt his ships.2 Constantius , with the other detach- One writer in Smith's " Dictionary of Classical Biography " speaks of Allectus having been ...
... passed it unobserved in a fog , landed in Britain , and to make retreat impossible , burnt his ships.2 Constantius , with the other detach- One writer in Smith's " Dictionary of Classical Biography " speaks of Allectus having been ...
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... passed again into the hands of the home authorities at his fall three years later . Paullus , surnamed Catena , a notary of the Court , was sent by Constantius II . to regulate its affairs , after the repression of the re- bellion , and ...
... passed again into the hands of the home authorities at his fall three years later . Paullus , surnamed Catena , a notary of the Court , was sent by Constantius II . to regulate its affairs , after the repression of the re- bellion , and ...
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... passed out of Roman power In 446 the Britons , pressed hard by the Saxon invaders , begged for help from Aëtius , the great general who held Attila in check ; but the request was refused . Britain had now to shift for herself ; to tell ...
... passed out of Roman power In 446 the Britons , pressed hard by the Saxon invaders , begged for help from Aëtius , the great general who held Attila in check ; but the request was refused . Britain had now to shift for herself ; to tell ...
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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.