Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... western coasts and on the high , inhabited uplands : tribal tombs , where the spirits of the dead were believed to await , like seeds , a day of resurrection and rebirth . For these primitive farmers , having raised themselves above ...
... western coasts and on the high , inhabited uplands : tribal tombs , where the spirits of the dead were believed to await , like seeds , a day of resurrection and rebirth . For these primitive farmers , having raised themselves above ...
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... western Christendom . Only in the remote Celtic islands of Ireland and western Scot- land , and in the south - east , beyond the Balkan mountains , where the Greek emperors still maintained the ancient pomp of the Caesars and the ...
... western Christendom . Only in the remote Celtic islands of Ireland and western Scot- land , and in the south - east , beyond the Balkan mountains , where the Greek emperors still maintained the ancient pomp of the Caesars and the ...
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... western Europe in an uproar with their selfish civil wars . It was this which completed the work that Alfred had begun . It made England a disciplined land , disciplined not only at the base but at the summit . A man could cross her ...
... western Europe in an uproar with their selfish civil wars . It was this which completed the work that Alfred had begun . It made England a disciplined land , disciplined not only at the base but at the summit . A man could cross her ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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