 | John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...Griffith the Welsh king ; and he was there slain, and his priests with him, and jElfnoth the shire-reeve, and many good men with them, and the others fled away. This was eight nights before Midsummer'." After Leofgar's death the see remained vacant for four years, during which... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1874 - 540 pages
...Aldred's mediation between Griffith and Edward ; the wailing complaint of the Saxon chronicler—" it is difficult to tell the distress, and all the...camping, and the travail and destruction of men, and also of horses, which all the Saxon army endured ;"2 the second triumphant return of Algar from banishment... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1874 - 542 pages
...Aldred's mediation between Griffith and Edward ; the wailing complaint of the Saxon chronicler—" it is difficult to tell the distress, and all the...camping, and the travail and destruction of men, and also of horses, which all the Saxon army endured ;"2 the second triumphant return of Algar from banishment... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Anglo-Saxons - 1874 - 766 pages
...itself was in danger, when Harold came up at the head of the Fyrd. Hard is it to tell the distress and the marching and the camping, and the travail, and destruction of men, and also of horses, which the English endured * till Harold came ; and then, luckily, came also the good old... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - Great Britain - 1876 - 694 pages
...following year. king ; and there was he slain, and his priests with him, and Elfnoth the shirereeve, and many good men with them ; and the others fled away ; this was eight days before Midsummer," (June 17). "It is difficult to tell the distress, and the marching all, and the camping, and the travail... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1877 - 268 pages
...Griffin, the Welsh king ; and there was he slain, and his priests with him, and Elfnoth the shirereeve, and many good men with them ; and the others fled away ; this was eight days before Midsummer," (June 17). * "Without any kind of guilt," according to another MS. ; whilst a third says, " It was... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1881 - 608 pages
...field against Griffia the Welsh king : and there was he slain, and his priestj with him, and Elnoth the sheriff and many good men with them ; and the others fled away. This was eight d»js before midsummer. It is difficult to tell the distress, aid all the marching, and the camping,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1882 - 398 pages
...and many others of his followers, were slain in this engagement. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle adds, " it is difficult to tell the distress, and all the marching and camping, and the travail and destruction of men and horses, which all the English army endured, until... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 410 pages
...itself was in danger, when Harold came up at the head of the Fyrd. Hard is it to tell the distress and the marching and the camping and the travail, and destruction of men, and also of horses, which the English endured* till Harold came; and then luckily came also the good old Leofric,... | |
 | Cathedrals - 1903 - 464 pages
...Griffith the Welsh king; and he was there slain, and his priests with him, and JLlfnoth the shire-reeve, and many good men with them, and the others fled away. This was eight nights before Midsummer"." After Leofgar's death the see remained vacant for four years, during which... | |
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He forsook his chrism and his rood, his ghostly weapons, and took to his spear and his sword, after his bishophood ; and so went... 
