The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Comprising the History of England from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, Volume 1; Volume 93Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Paternoster-Row., 1823 - Anglo-Saxons |
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Common terms and phrases
æra afterwards Alaric Alfred Alfred's ancestors ancient Angles Anglo-Saxon Armorica army Asser attacked authority barbarians barbaric battle became Bede Bernicia BOOK Britain British Britons Cadwallon Cæsar called celebrated century CHAP character Christian Chron civil civilised civitates coast conquest Danes death defeated Deira deity depredations destroyed East Anglia Edda Egbert Elbe emperor enemies England Ethelbald Ethelwerd Europe Flor Francs Gaul German Gibbon Gildas Gothic Goths habits Hengist Hist human Ibid idol imperial inhabitants invaders invasion island Keltic Kelts Kent Kimmerians king kingdom land letters Mascou ment mentions Mercia military mind nations natives Nennius northern Northmen Northumbria ocean Odin Offa Penda period perished Picts plunder population provinces Ptolemy regions reign remarks Rhine Roman empire Rome Saga Saxon Chronicle says Scythian ships Snorre Stilicho Strabo success sword Tacitus tion tribes Urien victory Welsh Weser Wessex West Zosimus
Popular passages
Page 177 - The Barbarians drive us to the sea, and the sea drives us back to the Barbarians ; BO that between the two we must be either slaughtered or drowned.
Page 172 - Rhine over the greater part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the...
Page 345 - As you are sitting with your ealdormen and thegns about you, the fire blazing in the center, and the whole hall cheered by its warmth ; and while storms of rain and snow are raging without, a little sparrow flies in at one door, roams around our festive meeting, and passes out at some other entrance. While it is among us, it feels not the wintry tempest. It enjoys the short comfort and serenity of its transient stay ; but then, plunging into the winter from which it had flown, it disappears from...
Page 99 - Caspian, and states them to have made many incursions on the Kimmerians and Treres, both far and near. They seized Bactriana, and the most fertile part of Armenia, which, from them, derived the name Sakasina; they defeated Cyrus ; and they reached the Cappadoces on the...
Page 320 - Brocmail was one of the patrons of Taliesin, who commemorates this struggle : — I saw the oppression of the tumult ; the wrath and tribulation ; The blades gleaming on the bright helmets...
Page 99 - With regard to the %ynns in particular, Sharon Turner observes, — " They VTWe ä German or Teutonic, that is, a Gothic or Scythian tribe : and of the various Scythian nations which have been recorded, the Sakai or Sacae are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of probability.
Page 17 - There is an education of mind, distinct from the literary, which is gradually imparted by the contingencies of active life. In this, which is always the education of the largest portion of mankind, our ancestors were never deficient.
Page 345 - Ealdormen and thegns about you, the fire blazing in the centre, and the whole hall cheered by its warmth, — and while storms of rain and snow are raging without, — a little sparrow flies in at one door, roams around our festive meeting, and passes out at some other entrance. While it is among us it feels not the wintry tempest. It enjoys the short comfort and serenity of its transient stay; but then, plunging into the winter from which it had flown, it disappears from our eyes. Such is here the...
Page 548 - Why, man ! do you sit thinking there, and are too proud to turn the bread ? Whatever be your family, with such manners and sloth, what trust can be put in you hereafter ? If you were even a nobleman, you will be glad to eat the bread which you neglect to attend to.
Page 332 - ... was in general use in England from the 13th to the 16th century. The first school established in England was at Canterbury, at the beginning of the 7th century. Ethelbert, king of Kent, who assisted Augustine in promoting the conversion of the people, was the author of the first written Anglo-Saxon laws, which have descended to us, or which are known to have been established. Theodore, ordained Archbishop of Canterbury near the close of the 7th century, in conjunction with his friend Adrian,...