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... a sudden surprise made them masters of his country , and drove him for a while to the marshes of Athelney . ] GUTHRUM1 had fixed his residence at Gloucester , and re- 、 C 2 ALFRED AT ATHELNEY . 19 ALFRED AT ATHELNEY-Lingard.
... a sudden surprise made them masters of his country , and drove him for a while to the marshes of Athelney . ] GUTHRUM1 had fixed his residence at Gloucester , and re- 、 C 2 ALFRED AT ATHELNEY . 19 ALFRED AT ATHELNEY-Lingard.
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... masters of Anglo - Saxon song . Day and night would he employ in hearkening to these poems ; he treasured them in his memory , and during the whole of his life , poetry continued to be his solace and amusement in trouble and care . It ...
... masters of Anglo - Saxon song . Day and night would he employ in hearkening to these poems ; he treasured them in his memory , and during the whole of his life , poetry continued to be his solace and amusement in trouble and care . It ...
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... masters in early life . As soon as he was settled in his kingdom he attempted to supply this deficiency , not only for himself , but also for his people , by inviting learned men from foreign parts . Asser , a native of St. David's ...
... masters in early life . As soon as he was settled in his kingdom he attempted to supply this deficiency , not only for himself , but also for his people , by inviting learned men from foreign parts . Asser , a native of St. David's ...
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... master of England . Of the suffering which this warfare caused the most terrible instance was the pitiless laying waste of all Northern England , from which the most formidable resistance had come . ] Now came that fearful deed , half ...
... master of England . Of the suffering which this warfare caused the most terrible instance was the pitiless laying waste of all Northern England , from which the most formidable resistance had come . ] Now came that fearful deed , half ...
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... masters . Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness . The bodies of its inhabitants were rotting in the streets , in the highways , or on their own hearth- stones ; and those who had escaped from sword , fire , and hunger ...
... masters . Before the end of the year Yorkshire was a wilderness . The bodies of its inhabitants were rotting in the streets , in the highways , or on their own hearth- stones ; and those who had escaped from sword , fire , and hunger ...
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