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
... hand to hand and the minstrels sang their sagas , shout with drunken joy at the remembrance of their forefathers ' heroic ... hands on my lord's knee . ' From him they received the meat , bread and salt , the ale and mead on which they ...
... hand to hand and the minstrels sang their sagas , shout with drunken joy at the remembrance of their forefathers ' heroic ... hands on my lord's knee . ' From him they received the meat , bread and salt , the ale and mead on which they ...
Page 157
... hands lay the power to dismiss them . The source of their authority was the King , the terms under which they exercised it the Common Law , the link between them and the government the royal judges on their periodic visitations of ...
... hands lay the power to dismiss them . The source of their authority was the King , the terms under which they exercised it the Common Law , the link between them and the government the royal judges on their periodic visitations of ...
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... hands with the Flemings who were besieging Béthune , fifty miles beyond that river . But though he had been temporarily out- witted , when he found that his foe had crossed the Seine , King Philip acted with equal speed . Realising at ...
... hands with the Flemings who were besieging Béthune , fifty miles beyond that river . But though he had been temporarily out- witted , when he found that his foe had crossed the Seine , King Philip acted with equal speed . Realising at ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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