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" Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's wife ; which stigma, the elders of that land say, arose from a certain obstinate and malevolent queen of the same nation, who did all things so contrary... "
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ... - Page 21
by Alfred (King of England) - 1852
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Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der ..., Volumes 71-72

1892 - 394 pages
...enthusiasm on the part of the nation in regard to Judith, for we learn : „and he placed Judith ... on the regal throne, without any controversy or enmity...life, contrary to the perverse custom of that nation". This is surely little whereon to base the epithets „the pride, the hope, the darling of the nation"....
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The Story of King Alfred

Sir Walter Besant - 1901 - 210 pages
...counsel, so wished things to be done, that the kingdom might not come into danger; and he placed Judith, daughter of King Charles, whom he had received from...a queen, but only the king's wife ; which stigma, the elders of that land say, arose from a certain obstinate and malevolent queen of the same nation,...
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Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of ...

John Allen Giles - 1901 - 574 pages
...not come into danger ; and he placed Judith, daughter of king Charles, whom he had received from his father, by his own side on the regal throne, without...called a queen, but only the king's wife ; which stigma the elders of that land say arose from a certain obstinate and malevolent queen of the same nation,...
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Coronation Rites

Reginald Maxwell Woolley - 1915 - 246 pages
...recalls the irepiKe^dXaiov of the Eastern Emperor. The Saxon 1 ' For the nation of the West-Saxons does not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's wife.' Asser, De rebus gesiis Aelfredi, sa 856 (Petrie, Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 471). The Annales Bertiniani,...
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coronation rites

240 pages
...the irep<Kf<f>o\<uov of the Eastern Emperor. The Saxon 1 ' For the nation of the West- Saxons does not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's wife.' Asser, De rebus gestis Adfredi, sa 856 (Petrie, Man. Hist. Brit. p. 471). The Annales Bertiniani, which...
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