Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... followed the whale , the herring and the seal . They loved fighting . Their poetry , chanted in the mead - halls of their chieftains as they sat feasting at the long benches , is full of the clash of ' the hammered blades ' , ' the ...
... followed the whale , the herring and the seal . They loved fighting . Their poetry , chanted in the mead - halls of their chieftains as they sat feasting at the long benches , is full of the clash of ' the hammered blades ' , ' the ...
Page 379
... followed the Black Death and the failure of the French Wars , the peasants of south - eastern England rose against the attempt of their lay and ecclesiastical lords to impose new taxes and enforce anti- quated feudal dues , the system ...
... followed the Black Death and the failure of the French Wars , the peasants of south - eastern England rose against the attempt of their lay and ecclesiastical lords to impose new taxes and enforce anti- quated feudal dues , the system ...
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... followed and , in its train , pestilence , haunting the noisome ditches and insanitary hovels . Yet at the darkest hour of the long northern night , rich and poor , old and young celebrated the beginning of things and the mystery of ...
... followed and , in its train , pestilence , haunting the noisome ditches and insanitary hovels . Yet at the darkest hour of the long northern night , rich and poor , old and young celebrated the beginning of things and the mystery of ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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