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... Wise Men and Cynewulf elected 755 Eadberht of Northumberland takes Alcluyd 756 Death of Æthelbald ; Offa King of the Mercians 757 Charles the Great King of the Franks 768 Offa takes Bensington . 779 Cynewulf killed by Cyneheard . 786 ...
... Wise Men and Cynewulf elected 755 Eadberht of Northumberland takes Alcluyd 756 Death of Æthelbald ; Offa King of the Mercians 757 Charles the Great King of the Franks 768 Offa takes Bensington . 779 Cynewulf killed by Cyneheard . 786 ...
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... wise a people as the Greeks , were much more likely than the Greeks to find out something about the Isle of Britain . They were not an Aryan people , and the language which they spoke was much the same as the Hebrew , the language ...
... wise a people as the Greeks , were much more likely than the Greeks to find out something about the Isle of Britain . They were not an Aryan people , and the language which they spoke was much the same as the Hebrew , the language ...
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... wise and brave man , and who beat both the Scots and the Saxons , and won back the land for Rome as far as the wall of Agricola . This was , for the time , a great check to the Teutons , who were trying to get into the island ; but this ...
... wise and brave man , and who beat both the Scots and the Saxons , and won back the land for Rome as far as the wall of Agricola . This was , for the time , a great check to the Teutons , who were trying to get into the island ; but this ...
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... wise man and a great warrior , as it seems never to have stayed in the same kingdom or to have been handed on from father to son . During all the time that I have been talking about , the English were still heathens . The Welsh do not ...
... wise man and a great warrior , as it seems never to have stayed in the same kingdom or to have been handed on from father to son . During all the time that I have been talking about , the English were still heathens . The Welsh do not ...
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... Wise Men of the Kingdom . And in every part there were smaller courts and assemblies for judging and settling matters , for we were a free people from the beginning . Yet high birth was held in great reverence , and men were divided ...
... Wise Men of the Kingdom . And in every part there were smaller courts and assemblies for judging and settling matters , for we were a free people from the beginning . Yet high birth was held in great reverence , and men were divided ...
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