 ... three days: he was as far north as the whale-hunters go at the farthest. Then he proceeded in his course due north, as far as he could sail within another three days; then the land there inclined due east, or the sea into the land, he knew not which...  The Life of Alfred the Great - Page 249by Reinhold Pauli - 1853 - 582 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1852 - 552 pages
...that he there waited for a western wind, or a little to the north, and sailed thence east near the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he must wait there for the huge Empire of Russia by the bay S. Nicolas and the riuer of Duma? &c." Id.... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - Anglo-Saxons - 1858 - 768 pages
...that he there waited for a western wind, or a little to the north, and sailed thence east near the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he must wait there for the huge Empire of Russia by the bay S. Nicolas and the riuer of Duma? &c." Id.... | |
 | Paulus Orosius - History - 1858 - 504 pages
...that he there waited for a western wind, or a little to the north, and sailed thence east near the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he must wait there for the huge Empire of Russia hy the bay S. Nicolas and the riuer of Duma? &c." Id.... | |
 | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld - Arctic regions - 1881 - 578 pages
...there inclined due east, or the sea into the land, he knew not which; but he knew that he waited there for a west wind or a little north, and sailed thence...had to wait for a due north wind because the land inclined there due south, or the sea in on that land, he knew not which. He then sailed along the coast... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1895 - 594 pages
...three days. Then the land there inclined due east, or the sea into the land, he knew not which ; but he knew that he there waited for a west wind, or a...thence eastward along that land, as far as he could Alfred's West-Saxon version of Gregory's Pastoral Care," ed. H. Sweet, EETS, 1871-2. This last is the... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1898 - 364 pages
...knew not which, but he knew that he awaited there a north-west wind and sailed then east, along by the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he had to wait for a wind right from the north, because the land bent due south. Then he sailed thence due south along the... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 512 pages
...that he there waited for a western wind, or a little to the north, and- sailed thence east near the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he must wait there for a right north wind, because the land bent there right south, or the sea in on the... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 pages
...that he there waited for a western wind, or a little to the north, and sailed thence east near the land, as far as he could sail in four days. Then he must wait there for a right north wind, because the land bent there right south, or the sea in on the... | |
 | Alfred (King of England), George Forrest Browne - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1920 - 434 pages
...south-east, this definition of the best wind is graphically correct — ' and sailed thence east near the land as far as he could sail in. four days. ' Then he must wait there for a right north wind, because the land bent there right south, or the sea bent in... | |
 | John Forsyth Meigs - Merchant marine - 1924 - 430 pages
...days. Then the land there inclined due east or the sea into the land he knew not which. He waited there for a west wind or a little north, and sailed thence...eastward along that land as far as he could sail in 4 days. Then he had to wait for a north wind because the land there inclined due south or the sea in... | |
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