Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... Wales . They married the native chieftains ' daughters and took sides in their tribal affrays . The inconveniences of cattle - raiding and seasonal war were offset for them by the freedom they enjoyed , unknown in judge - ridden England ...
... Wales . They married the native chieftains ' daughters and took sides in their tribal affrays . The inconveniences of cattle - raiding and seasonal war were offset for them by the freedom they enjoyed , unknown in judge - ridden England ...
Page 173
... Wales , aroused a surge of national pride in his countrymen . Yet , conscious of their incorrigible separatism , he made no attempt to flaunt his power and , dividing his conquests among the lesser chieftains , chose to reign over his ...
... Wales , aroused a surge of national pride in his countrymen . Yet , conscious of their incorrigible separatism , he made no attempt to flaunt his power and , dividing his conquests among the lesser chieftains , chose to reign over his ...
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... Wales as the Scots king was of Scotland and Edward of Gascony . Wales was not , and had never been , like Gwynedd , a single state . Yet though on false ground legally , in a wider , poetic sense Llywelyn was right . Because her people ...
... Wales as the Scots king was of Scotland and Edward of Gascony . Wales was not , and had never been , like Gwynedd , a single state . Yet though on false ground legally , in a wider , poetic sense Llywelyn was right . Because her people ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
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