Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... turning again , the ships made for the point where the landing had been effected the year before . The soldiers on board the transports worked , we are told , so hard that their heavy vessels kept up with the ships of war . No attempt ...
... turning again , the ships made for the point where the landing had been effected the year before . The soldiers on board the transports worked , we are told , so hard that their heavy vessels kept up with the ships of war . No attempt ...
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... turned upon him , and cut his infantry to pieces . Cerialis himself , with his cavalry , contrived to make his way back to his camp , which was probably near the Wash . The Civil Governor , whose rapacity had had much to do with the ...
... turned upon him , and cut his infantry to pieces . Cerialis himself , with his cavalry , contrived to make his way back to his camp , which was probably near the Wash . The Civil Governor , whose rapacity had had much to do with the ...
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... turned and fled , or would have fled but that the waggons blocked the way . A fearful massacre followed . Not only the combatants , but the women and even the cattle that were harnessed to the waggons were indiscriminately slain . It is ...
... turned and fled , or would have fled but that the waggons blocked the way . A fearful massacre followed . Not only the combatants , but the women and even the cattle that were harnessed to the waggons were indiscriminately slain . It is ...
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... turned his arms against the invaders , and drove them back into the territory which they had first occupied . For the eight years between 457 and 465 the Chronicle is a blank . Then comes the record of another battle , fought at a place ...
... turned his arms against the invaders , and drove them back into the territory which they had first occupied . For the eight years between 457 and 465 the Chronicle is a blank . Then comes the record of another battle , fought at a place ...
Page 134
... turned his arms elsewhere . The English of Leicestershire and of Lincolnshire sub- mitted to him , and he wrested from Wessex some of its territories . In fact , he busied himself with build- ing up the powerful Mercia of which we shall ...
... turned his arms elsewhere . The English of Leicestershire and of Lincolnshire sub- mitted to him , and he wrested from Wessex some of its territories . In fact , he busied himself with build- ing up the powerful Mercia of which we shall ...
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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.