Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... kingdom which grew up in the island's largest and most fertile region , and of the two smaller rival nations , Scotland and Wales , which , occupying its more mountainous and remote parts , ultimately merged with it while retaining ...
... kingdom which grew up in the island's largest and most fertile region , and of the two smaller rival nations , Scotland and Wales , which , occupying its more mountainous and remote parts , ultimately merged with it while retaining ...
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... kingdom of the East Angles ' . When everyone for whom no ransom was forthcoming had been mas- sacred , they moved on to the next district . Those who paid them enough to go away they left alone till another year , when they returned for ...
... kingdom of the East Angles ' . When everyone for whom no ransom was forthcoming had been mas- sacred , they moved on to the next district . Those who paid them enough to go away they left alone till another year , when they returned for ...
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... kingdom of Jerusalem , the news of whose capture by the Moslem Saracens in the year before his accession had shocked western Europe . This chivalrous romantic young knight , poet and musician , was so eager to raise an army that he was ...
... kingdom of Jerusalem , the news of whose capture by the Moslem Saracens in the year before his accession had shocked western Europe . This chivalrous romantic young knight , poet and musician , was so eager to raise an army that he was ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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