 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 458 pages
...is related in the Saxon Chronicle, as happening in the year 891. " Three Scots came to King Alfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 596 pages
...part which was mounted before the ships came up, and routed them. And three Scots came to king ^Elfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they...had stolen way, beA. 891. 3 The great army of pagans One year afterwards, the came from the ea'stern king- bands of the aforesaid army dom of the Franks... | |
 | Benjamin Thorpe - 1861 - 350 pages
...Saxons, and Bavarians, fought against the mounted force before the ships camo, and put it to flight.1 And three Scots came to king JElfred in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired, for love of God, to bo in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1863 - 416 pages
...part which was mounted before the ships came up, and routed them. And three Scots came to king JElired in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they...had stolen way, beA. 891. 3 The great army of pagans One year afterwards, the came from the eastern king- bands of the aforesaid army dom of the Franks... | |
 | 1868 - 758 pages
...fellow-labourers of this early missionary. It is as follows : — " And three Scots came to King Alfred in a boat, without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1871 - 572 pages
...Inscribed Stone of Cornwall; even the land about it seems to have • Anno 892. Three Scots (Irish) came in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | George Petrie - 1872 - 254 pages
...Wigorniensis Chron. (Monumenta Hist. Brit.), p. 564. " An. 892. And three Scots came to King ^Elfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | 1884 - 344 pages
...ocean." Even as late as the yeat ' 891, says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: "Three Scots came to King Alfred, in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because for the love of God they desired to be on pilgrimage, they recked not where. The boat... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 pages
...Saxon Chronicle,' under the year AD 891, the reader may pick out how ' three Scots came to King Alfred in a boat, without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away because they desired, for the love of God, to be in a state of pilgrimage they knew not where.... | |
 | Dugald Macfadyen - 1901 - 450 pages
...bed rock. The English Chronicle tells under the year 891 how "three Scots [Irish] came to King Alfred in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
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And three Scots came to king Alfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired for the love of God to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where. The boat in which they came was made of two hides... 
