The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle1894 - 515 pages |
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Page 106
... Penda , a most warlike man of the royal race of the Mercians , and who from that time governed that nation twenty - two years with various success . A great battle being fought in the plain that is called Heathfield , * Edwin was killed ...
... Penda , a most warlike man of the royal race of the Mercians , and who from that time governed that nation twenty - two years with various success . A great battle being fought in the plain that is called Heathfield , * Edwin was killed ...
Page 119
... Penda , king of the Mercians , whom he had married , and took another wife ; whereupon a war ensuing , he was by him expelled his kingdom , and withdrew to Anna , king of the East Saxons , where living three years in banish- ment , he ...
... Penda , king of the Mercians , whom he had married , and took another wife ; whereupon a war ensuing , he was by him expelled his kingdom , and withdrew to Anna , king of the East Saxons , where living three years in banish- ment , he ...
Page 131
... Penda , and by the pagan nation of the Mercians , that had slain his brother , as also by his son Alfred , and by his cousin - german Ethelwald , the son of his brother who reigned before him . In his second year , that is , in the year ...
... Penda , and by the pagan nation of the Mercians , that had slain his brother , as also by his son Alfred , and by his cousin - german Ethelwald , the son of his brother who reigned before him . In his second year , that is , in the year ...
Page 134
... Penda , cruelly ravaged the country of the Northumbrians far and near , even to the royal city ; * which has its name from Bebba , formerly its queen . Not being able to enter it by force , or by a long siege , he endeavoured to burn it ...
... Penda , cruelly ravaged the country of the Northumbrians far and near , even to the royal city ; * which has its name from Bebba , formerly its queen . Not being able to enter it by force , or by a long siege , he endeavoured to burn it ...
Page 135
... Penda does ! " Which words were hardly uttered , when the wind immediately turning from the city , drove back the flames upon those who had kindled them , so that some being hurt , and all frightened , they forbore any further attempts ...
... Penda does ! " Which words were hardly uttered , when the wind immediately turning from the city , drove back the flames upon those who had kindled them , so that some being hurt , and all frightened , they forbore any further attempts ...
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