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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... island which the western sea surrounds , By giants once possessed ; now few remain To bar thy entrance , or obstruct thy reign . To reach that happy shore thy sails employ ; There fate decrees to raise a second Troy , And found an ...
... island which the western sea surrounds , By giants once possessed ; now few remain To bar thy entrance , or obstruct thy reign . To reach that happy shore thy sails employ ; There fate decrees to raise a second Troy , And found an ...
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... island , and arrived on the coast of Totness . CHAP . XVI . — Albion divided between Brutus and Corineus . THE island was then called Albion , * and was inhabited by none but a few giants . Notwithstanding this , the pleasant situation ...
... island , and arrived on the coast of Totness . CHAP . XVI . — Albion divided between Brutus and Corineus . THE island was then called Albion , * and was inhabited by none but a few giants . Notwithstanding this , the pleasant situation ...
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... island after his own name Britain , and his companions Britons ; for by these means he desired to perpetuate the memory of his name . From whence afterwards the lan- guage of the nation , which at first bore the name of Trojan , or ...
... island after his own name Britain , and his companions Britons ; for by these means he desired to perpetuate the memory of his name . From whence afterwards the lan- guage of the nation , which at first bore the name of Trojan , or ...
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... island . Mempricius , impatient to attain his ends , enters into treaty with Malim , under colour of making a composition with him , and , having formed a conspiracy , murdered him in the assembly where their ambassadors were met . By ...
... island . Mempricius , impatient to attain his ends , enters into treaty with Malim , under colour of making a composition with him , and , having formed a conspiracy , murdered him in the assembly where their ambassadors were met . By ...
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... island at present , but after his death , the inheritance of the whole monarchy of Britain . It happened after this , that Aganippus , king of the Franks , having heard of the fame of Cordeilla's beauty , forthwith sent his ambassadors ...
... island at present , but after his death , the inheritance of the whole monarchy of Britain . It happened after this , that Aganippus , king of the Franks , having heard of the fame of Cordeilla's beauty , forthwith sent his ambassadors ...
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