 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...javelins strewed, northern man over shield shot ; so the Scots eke, weary, war-sad. West-Saxons onwards throughout the day, in bands, pursued the footsteps of the loathed nations. They hewed the fugitives behind, amain with swords mill-sharp Mercians refused not the hard hand-play to... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - 1902 - 648 pages
...javelins strewed, northern man over shield shot ; so the Scots eke, weary, war-sad. West Saxons onwards throughout the day, in bands, pursued the footsteps of the loathed nations. They hewed the fugitives behind, amain, with falchions mill-sharp. Mercians refused not the hard hand-play... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1909 - 408 pages
...and seven earls were laid in slumber by the sword, and of their army countless shipmen and Scots. The West Saxons onward throughout the day, in bands, pursued the footsteps of the loathed nations. Carnage greater has not been in this island, of people slain by the edge of the sword, since from the... | |
 | 1913 - 528 pages
...retreat to save the banner from capture. When the ' The Aiglti says " Scottish eatVs," \>\iV \\. \%w Scots saw that the commander of the Northmen in the...related that five kings and seven earls were slain. Constantuie, " hoary warrior," escaped north. The poem in the Chronicle calls Olaf always Anlaf. He... | |
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Anlaf, over the ocean, in the ship's bosom, this land sought fated to the fight. Five lay on the battle-stead, youthful kings, by swords in slumber laid : so seven eke of Anlaf... 
