 | William Henry Parr Greswell - 1903 - 364 pages
...than this recorded in the unimpeachable Saxon Chronicle: "AD 891. 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.... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - 1906 - 448 pages
...the city to the keeping of the alderman Ethered. AD 892 In this year three Scots came to King Alfred in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired, for love of God, to go on pilgrimage, they cared not where. The boat in... | |
 | 1909 - 346 pages
...which was mounted before the ships came up, and put them to flight. And three Scots came to king Alfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland, whence they had stolen away because they would for love of God be in a state of pilgrimage — they recked not where. The... | |
 | 1912 - 682 pages
...following entry in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle under the year 891 : " And three Scots2 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 whither.... | |
 | 1912 - 666 pages
...following entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 891 : " And three Scots 1 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 whither.... | |
 | George Sampson - 1924 - 504 pages
...the mounted force before the ships came, and put it to flight. And three Scots came to king Alfred in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away, because they desired, for love of God, to be in a state of pilgrimage, they recked not where.... | |
 | Michael Alexander - 2002 - 324 pages
...Franks and the Saxons and the Bavarians, and put it to flight. And three Irishmen came to king Alfred in a boat without any oars, from Ireland, whence they had stolen away because they wished for the love of God to be on pilgrimage, they cared not where. The boat in... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 2004 - 312 pages
...ocean." Even as late as the year 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... | |
 | JAMES STANLEY - 1878 - 526 pages
...laudable spirit of adventure, or any proper impulse of religion. " 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.... | |
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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... 
