Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... never regarded as virtues at all . Love not hate , gentle- ness not force , mercy not vengeance had been the armour of this heroic captain . The Northumbrians ' own valour in battle was small compared to the cold courage of facing death ...
... never regarded as virtues at all . Love not hate , gentle- ness not force , mercy not vengeance had been the armour of this heroic captain . The Northumbrians ' own valour in battle was small compared to the cold courage of facing death ...
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... never lost sight of his aims , never over - reached himself , and steadily increased his domains . When in his fortieth year he began to gather ships for the invasion of England , landless knights from every Frankish province flocked to ...
... never lost sight of his aims , never over - reached himself , and steadily increased his domains . When in his fortieth year he began to gather ships for the invasion of England , landless knights from every Frankish province flocked to ...
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... never reached the battlefield at all . In a desperately fought moonlit encounter which continued all night Douglas himself was slain , but the Scots were left in possession of the field and both Percies taken prisoner . The battle ...
... never reached the battlefield at all . In a desperately fought moonlit encounter which continued all night Douglas himself was slain , but the Scots were left in possession of the field and both Percies taken prisoner . The battle ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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