Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 38
... half Saxon , half Celtic , had carried their golden dragon banner to the Dover strait and the Atlantic . But by 870 , half encircled by sea , and with all England north of the Thames in the Norseman's grip , Wessex seemed doomed . In ...
... half Saxon , half Celtic , had carried their golden dragon banner to the Dover strait and the Atlantic . But by 870 , half encircled by sea , and with all England north of the Thames in the Norseman's grip , Wessex seemed doomed . In ...
Page 45
... half the number the Romans had raised during their three and a half centuries of occupation . When , towards the end of the reign , the Viking Grand Army again attacked southern England , it was completely frustrated by this ingenious ...
... half the number the Romans had raised during their three and a half centuries of occupation . When , towards the end of the reign , the Viking Grand Army again attacked southern England , it was completely frustrated by this ingenious ...
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... half the country's population . One result had been a spectacular rise in wages , which the Council and suc- cessive Parliaments of landowners had tried vainly to halt by punitive ordinances and legislation . These Statutes of Labourers ...
... half the country's population . One result had been a spectacular rise in wages , which the Council and suc- cessive Parliaments of landowners had tried vainly to halt by punitive ordinances and legislation . These Statutes of Labourers ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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