Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... green of deciduous oak , elm , ash , hazel , lime and alder . Had we been able to look down on the island we should have seen that the forests , like the jungles of the East today , were swarming with game : wild boar and oxen , elk and ...
... green of deciduous oak , elm , ash , hazel , lime and alder . Had we been able to look down on the island we should have seen that the forests , like the jungles of the East today , were swarming with game : wild boar and oxen , elk and ...
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... green - clad folk in a green land that we must think of them , swinging their axes and driving their ploughs through mysterious forest and dark earth to make the land we love . - - Their main settlements were at first near the coast the ...
... green - clad folk in a green land that we must think of them , swinging their axes and driving their ploughs through mysterious forest and dark earth to make the land we love . - - Their main settlements were at first near the coast the ...
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... Green , name of 382 Green , Sir Henry 366 Greenstead 52 Greenwich 316 , 317 Gregory I , St. , pope 46 Gregory VII , ( Hildebrand ) , pope 102-4 , 110 Gresholm 53 Grevil , William 409 Grey , lord 275 Greyfriars , see Griffith , John 273 ...
... Green , name of 382 Green , Sir Henry 366 Greenstead 52 Greenwich 316 , 317 Gregory I , St. , pope 46 Gregory VII , ( Hildebrand ) , pope 102-4 , 110 Gresholm 53 Grevil , William 409 Grey , lord 275 Greyfriars , see Griffith , John 273 ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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