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 22
... turned farmers were the spirits of Battle , Storm and Nature common to all the Nordic peoples . They honoured only the brave and warlike . It was because of this that , despite their love of independence , they gave such loyalty to ...
... turned farmers were the spirits of Battle , Storm and Nature common to all the Nordic peoples . They honoured only the brave and warlike . It was because of this that , despite their love of independence , they gave such loyalty to ...
Page 129
... turned . It was of the Crown that they thought when they used the word England , for without it there would have been no England . Ever since the days of Alfred the monarchy had been implanting in the English the habit of acting ...
... turned . It was of the Crown that they thought when they used the word England , for without it there would have been no England . Ever since the days of Alfred the monarchy had been implanting in the English the habit of acting ...
Page 243
... turned upstream to seek a narrower crossing . By doing so they abandoned their communications with England but threatened Paris . For the next six days the rival armies marched south - westwards along opposite sides of the Seine ...
... turned upstream to seek a narrower crossing . By doing so they abandoned their communications with England but threatened Paris . For the next six days the rival armies marched south - westwards along opposite sides of the Seine ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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