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 53
... northern names like Crosby and Cross- thwaite . Other Scandinavian words were being woven into the map of northern England ; gate a street and thwaite à clearing , fell a hill and thorpe a settlement , foss a waterfall and by a village ...
... northern names like Crosby and Cross- thwaite . Other Scandinavian words were being woven into the map of northern England ; gate a street and thwaite à clearing , fell a hill and thorpe a settlement , foss a waterfall and by a village ...
Page 73
... northern barbarians who had ravaged her for three centuries and who now withdrew into the Scandinavian mists . Twice during his reign the Danes were invited by rebellious subjects to land on the east coast , and twice were driven out ...
... northern barbarians who had ravaged her for three centuries and who now withdrew into the Scandinavian mists . Twice during his reign the Danes were invited by rebellious subjects to land on the east coast , and twice were driven out ...
Page 208
... northern England , he intended , should taste the same medicine . Despairing of help , the men of Northumber- land offered him a ransom for their homes and crops . When he re- crossed the border it was with £ 2000 of English money paid ...
... northern England , he intended , should taste the same medicine . Despairing of help , the men of Northumber- land offered him a ransom for their homes and crops . When he re- crossed the border it was with £ 2000 of English money paid ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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