Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... ravaged , 281 - Demoralized state of the Country , 283 - Forty - eight Thousand Pounds Ransom , 285 - Sweyn virtually King of England , 287- Canute ravages the West Country , 289 - A Succession of Fierce Battles , 291 - The Battle of ...
... ravaged , 281 - Demoralized state of the Country , 283 - Forty - eight Thousand Pounds Ransom , 285 - Sweyn virtually King of England , 287- Canute ravages the West Country , 289 - A Succession of Fierce Battles , 291 - The Battle of ...
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... ravaged the territory of certain German tribes beyond it . Then , after the manner of conquerors , he looked about for fresh enterprises in which to employ his troops , and it occurred to him to invade the neighbouring island of Britain ...
... ravaged the territory of certain German tribes beyond it . Then , after the manner of conquerors , he looked about for fresh enterprises in which to employ his troops , and it occurred to him to invade the neighbouring island of Britain ...
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... ravaged all Britain , save Kent only . " And from Kent he had taken , as we have seen , his second wife . His conquests , too , are said to See p . 126 , PEACEFUL BRITAIN . 133 have extended both westward and northward XIII THE ...
... ravaged all Britain , save Kent only . " And from Kent he had taken , as we have seen , his second wife . His conquests , too , are said to See p . 126 , PEACEFUL BRITAIN . 133 have extended both westward and northward XIII THE ...
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... ravaged the country of the West Saxons as far as Ashdown . Curiously enough , when we remember what had been the conduct of Penda , this victory of Mercia helped forward the spread of Christianity . The King of Sussex was persuaded or ...
... ravaged the country of the West Saxons as far as Ashdown . Curiously enough , when we remember what had been the conduct of Penda , this victory of Mercia helped forward the spread of Christianity . The King of Sussex was persuaded or ...
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... ravaged the land of the Northum- brians . " More he was not able to do . And it was not long before his power in the South was broken . The scanty records of the Chronicle are a little perplexing . They seem to point to a war succeeded ...
... ravaged the land of the Northum- brians . " More he was not able to do . And it was not long before his power in the South was broken . The scanty records of the Chronicle are a little perplexing . They seem to point to a war succeeded ...
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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.