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... Ethel- werd , iv . p . 514 , Monum . Hist . Brit .: " Veluti advecta navis per gurgite undarum longinqua spatia tenet , " & c . Both , as true sons of Britain , derive their comparison from navigation . scribing the narrative , because ...
... Ethel- werd , iv . p . 514 , Monum . Hist . Brit .: " Veluti advecta navis per gurgite undarum longinqua spatia tenet , " & c . Both , as true sons of Britain , derive their comparison from navigation . scribing the narrative , because ...
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... Ethelwerd's dry Chronicle is , in general , little more than an elaboration of the early Saxon annals , in barbarous Latin ; here and there , however , it is evident that some other popular sources of information were employed by him ...
... Ethelwerd's dry Chronicle is , in general , little more than an elaboration of the early Saxon annals , in barbarous Latin ; here and there , however , it is evident that some other popular sources of information were employed by him ...
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... Ethelwerd , and Florence . We possess also separate genealogies in the Chronicle of the latter . Later historians faithfully copy from these ancient authors , but continually increase the mutilation of the strange sounding names , and ...
... Ethelwerd , and Florence . We possess also separate genealogies in the Chronicle of the latter . Later historians faithfully copy from these ancient authors , but continually increase the mutilation of the strange sounding names , and ...
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... Ethelwerd Chron . iii . prooem . p 509 ; Florent . i . 62 . 2 Not before 801. According to the Cod . Dipl . No. 180 , all this happened in the year 802 . * Asser , Gesta Alfredi , p . 471. As was remarked , p . 9 , Asser relates the ...
... Ethelwerd Chron . iii . prooem . p 509 ; Florent . i . 62 . 2 Not before 801. According to the Cod . Dipl . No. 180 , all this happened in the year 802 . * Asser , Gesta Alfredi , p . 471. As was remarked , p . 9 , Asser relates the ...
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... Ethelwerd Chron . 610 ; Caradoc , p . 25 , 26 . Brut y Tywysogion , Mon. Hist . Brit . p . 844 ; Annales Cambr . ib . p . 835 . bert had already reigned more than twenty years over the 36 THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF EGBERT .
... Ethelwerd Chron . 610 ; Caradoc , p . 25 , 26 . Brut y Tywysogion , Mon. Hist . Brit . p . 844 ; Annales Cambr . ib . p . 835 . bert had already reigned more than twenty years over the 36 THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF EGBERT .
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