Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, Together with the Spurious Chronicle of Richard of CirencesterJohn Allen Giles G. Bell, 1901 - 512 pages |
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... Cæsar , and Alfred , he wielded the sword as much as the pen . ' 99 Ethelwerd dedicated his work to , and indeed wrote it for the use of his relation Matilda , daughter of Otho the Great , emperor of Germany , by his first empress ...
... Cæsar , and Alfred , he wielded the sword as much as the pen . ' 99 Ethelwerd dedicated his work to , and indeed wrote it for the use of his relation Matilda , daughter of Otho the Great , emperor of Germany , by his first empress ...
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... Cæsar and the other classic historians who have described the early state of Britain , it will be morally certain that all such accounts as we have in Geoffrey of Monmouth are purely fabulous . The uncertainty of every thing , save the ...
... Cæsar and the other classic historians who have described the early state of Britain , it will be morally certain that all such accounts as we have in Geoffrey of Monmouth are purely fabulous . The uncertainty of every thing , save the ...
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... Cæsar . A. 914. After one year , the day of Christ's nativity fell on a Sunday ; and so great was the tranquillity of that winter , that no one can remember anything like it either before or since . A. 917. After three years , Ethelfled ...
... Cæsar . A. 914. After one year , the day of Christ's nativity fell on a Sunday ; and so great was the tranquillity of that winter , that no one can remember anything like it either before or since . A. 917. After three years , Ethelfled ...
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... Cæsar , obtained the government of the kingdom , he surrounded it with stately walls , and towers of admirable workmanship , and ordered it to be called after his name , Kaer - Lud , that is , the City of Lud . But this very thing ...
... Cæsar , obtained the government of the kingdom , he surrounded it with stately walls , and towers of admirable workmanship , and ordered it to be called after his name , Kaer - Lud , that is , the City of Lud . But this very thing ...
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... been originally constructed by Julius Cæsar is an absurd fiction irreconcilable with the Commentaries of that general . See William of Malmesbury , p 341 . CHAP . XIX . - The names of Elidure's thirty CH . 17 , 18. ] 135 ELIDURE IMPRISONED.
... been originally constructed by Julius Cæsar is an absurd fiction irreconcilable with the Commentaries of that general . See William of Malmesbury , p 341 . CHAP . XIX . - The names of Elidure's thirty CH . 17 , 18. ] 135 ELIDURE IMPRISONED.
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