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 47
... death he was remembered by Englishmen as ' England's darling ' . -- Because of this , his work and kingdom - endured . He left no bitterness to be avenged after his death . Having saved Wessex , and with it the English nation , he made ...
... death he was remembered by Englishmen as ' England's darling ' . -- Because of this , his work and kingdom - endured . He left no bitterness to be avenged after his death . Having saved Wessex , and with it the English nation , he made ...
Page 190
... death at forty - four , following that of his last surviving child , the Queen of Norway , left her infant daughter sole heir to the Scottish throne . Alexander's rule and that of his father , Alexander II , had given the Scottish ...
... death at forty - four , following that of his last surviving child , the Queen of Norway , left her infant daughter sole heir to the Scottish throne . Alexander's rule and that of his father , Alexander II , had given the Scottish ...
Page 259
... Death which three times swept across the England of his youth and early manhood . But men were far more used than now to the contemplation of death , and Chaucer grew up as a page in the royal court which largely escaped the fate ...
... Death which three times swept across the England of his youth and early manhood . But men were far more used than now to the contemplation of death , and Chaucer grew up as a page in the royal court which largely escaped the fate ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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