 | Thomas Nicholas - 1873 - 606 pages
...safe of losing nothing. They increase in number. In AD 840, they came in thirtyfrse ships? In AD 851 came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of...crews landed and took Canterbury and London by storm ; but " King Ethelwulf, with his son Ethelbald, with the army of the West Saxons, fought against them... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1876 - 694 pages
...year the heathen men, for the first time, remained over winter in Thanct. "And the same year came 350 ships to the mouth of the Thames, and the crews landed...Canterbury and London by storm, and put to flight Bcorhtwulf, king of the Mercians, with his army, and then went south over the Thames into Surrey ;... | |
 | Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup - 1876 - 404 pages
...Foreigners , came to oppress the Foreigners who were in Erinn befbre them. (Chron. Scot.) This year came 350 ships to the mouth of the Thames and the crews landed and took Canterbury and London by etorm. (A. -S. Chron.) A fleet of 8 score ships of Finn-Ghenti arrived to fight against Dubh-Ghenti... | |
 | Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup - 1876 - 404 pages
...the Foreigners who were in Erinn before them. (Chron. Scot.) This year came 350 ships to the month of the Thames and the crews landed and took Canterbury and London by storm. (A. -S. Chron.) A fleet of 8 score ships of Finu-Ghenti arrived to fight against Dubh-Ghenti at Snambaignech... | |
 | Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1892 - 456 pages
...men of Dorset and Somerset, under their earldormen and Ealhstan bishop of Sherborne; but in 851 there came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of the Thames, the Danes stormed Canterbury and London, and put Beorhtulf and his army to flight. Burhred succeeded... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 268 pages
...district on the Severn and Wye), who were only nominal dependants on the king of Cardigan. " This year the heathen men, for the first time, remained over winter in Thanet. "And the same year came 350 ships to the mouth of the Thames, and the crews landed and took Canterbury and London by storm,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 514 pages
...Wig-laf in 839. In his days Mercia was subject to the West-Saxon king. Ln 851 came 350 ships of the Danes to the mouth of the Thames, and the crews landed and took Canterbury and London by storm. Beorhtwulf gathered all his host, and went out to battle against them. He was defeated and fled. Henry... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1889 - 440 pages
...The Pagans also now for the first time abode in winter quarters at Thanet. And the same year there came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of the Thames, and went up, and took by storm Canterbury and London, and put to flight Beortwulf, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | Alfred John Church - 1893 - 420 pages
...The Pagans also now for the first time abode in winter quarters at Thanet. And the same year there came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of the Thames, and went up, and took by storm Canterbury and London, and put to flight Beortwulf, King of the Mercians,... | |
 | Reginald Robinson Sharpe - 1894 - 598 pages
...still further into deca)-. In the eyes of 1 Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 55. *"And in the same year [ie 851] came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of the Thames, and landed, and took Canterbury and London by storm." — Id. ii, 56. ' Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 64, 65.... | |
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And the same year King Athelstan and Elchere the ealdorman fought on shipboard, and slew a great number of the enemy at Sandwich in Kent, and took nine ships, and put the others to flight ; and the heathen men, for the first time, remained over winter... 
