Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... west . At their zenith they may have occupied a sixth of the country . The rest of it , including the thick forest clays of the Midlands , remained uninhabited . The island still had no unity ; it had not even a name . To visualise it ...
... west . At their zenith they may have occupied a sixth of the country . The rest of it , including the thick forest clays of the Midlands , remained uninhabited . The island still had no unity ; it had not even a name . To visualise it ...
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... west . They were not exterminated but surrounded and absorbed . And their womenfolk , and those of the Celts , bore children to the conquerors . Nor , for all the bloody battles and massacres of that terrible time , did the British ...
... west . They were not exterminated but surrounded and absorbed . And their womenfolk , and those of the Celts , bore children to the conquerors . Nor , for all the bloody battles and massacres of that terrible time , did the British ...
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... west , his enemies of Lorne and the Isles between him and Douglas in the south - west . The English were still in control of every major fortress in Scotland . That February , after bringing home his twelve - year - old bride , the ...
... west , his enemies of Lorne and the Isles between him and Douglas in the south - west . The English were still in control of every major fortress in Scotland . That February , after bringing home his twelve - year - old bride , the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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