 ... Alfred: and he, with a small band, with difficulty retreated to the woods and to the fastnesses of the moors. And the same winter the brother of Hingwar and of Halfdene came with twenty-three ships to Devonshire in Wessex ; and he was there slain,...  Alfred in the Chroniclers - Page 124by John William Edward Conybeare - 1900 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex ; and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army : and there was taken the war-flag which they called the Raven. After this, at Easter king Alfred with a small baud constructed a fortress at Athelney ; and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex ; and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army: and there was taken the war-flag which they called the RAVEN. After this, at Easter king Alfred with a small band constructed a fortress at Athelney ; and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex; and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army: and there was taken the war-flag which they called the RAVEN. After this, at Easter king Alfred with a small band constructed a fortress at Athelney ; and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 438 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex ; and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army; and there was taken the warflag which they called the Raven. After this, at Easter, King Alfred, with a small band, constructed a fortress at Athelney; and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1908 - 312 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex, and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army, and there was taken the war-flag which they called the Raven. After this, at Easter, King Alfred with a small band constructed a fortress at Athelney, and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 576 pages
...Devonshire in Wessex; and he was there slain, and with him eight hundred and forty men of his army; and there was taken the warflag which they called the Raven. After this, at Easter, King Alfred, with a small band, constructed a fortress at Athelney; and from this fortress, with that... | |
 | 1924 - 136 pages
...twenty-three ships to Devonshire in Wessex ; and he was there slain, and with him 840 men of his army: and there was taken the war-flag which they called the Raven. After this, at Easter, King Alfred with a small band constructed a fortress at Athelney; and from this fortress, with that... | |
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