Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... ancient * Bede , Hist . Eccles . Angl . Lib . II . cap . 13 . ti . e . the harp . minstrel . He was sometimes a household retainer of the B 2 Introd . ] 3 THE MINSTRELS . without, and the snow fell, how some solitary ...
... ancient * Bede , Hist . Eccles . Angl . Lib . II . cap . 13 . ti . e . the harp . minstrel . He was sometimes a household retainer of the B 2 Introd . ] 3 THE MINSTRELS . without, and the snow fell, how some solitary ...
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... ancient superstition , the elves , nicors , and all the fantastic creatures of the popular creed , still held their places ; for the Christian missionaries themselves believed in the spiritual and un- seen world as extensively as their ...
... ancient superstition , the elves , nicors , and all the fantastic creatures of the popular creed , still held their places ; for the Christian missionaries themselves believed in the spiritual and un- seen world as extensively as their ...
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... Ancients , " * a clear proof of their general popularity at that time . And at the same time , as we learn from Hereward's anonymous biographer , there was one Leofric , " his presbyter at Bourne , " who seems to have still exercised in ...
... Ancients , " * a clear proof of their general popularity at that time . And at the same time , as we learn from Hereward's anonymous biographer , there was one Leofric , " his presbyter at Bourne , " who seems to have still exercised in ...
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... ancient legend , the real scene of which lay upon the shores of the Baltic , after they had been settled for a time in England , began to look upon it as a story connected only with the spot where they now dwelt , and to perpetuate the ...
... ancient legend , the real scene of which lay upon the shores of the Baltic , after they had been settled for a time in England , began to look upon it as a story connected only with the spot where they now dwelt , and to perpetuate the ...
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... ancient master and early studies , and contrasts the lite- rary stores amongst which he had been bred with the barrenness of France . In 796 , when he was engaged in his school at Tours , he writes to Charlemagne- " I here feel severely ...
... ancient master and early studies , and contrasts the lite- rary stores amongst which he had been bred with the barrenness of France . In 796 , when he was engaged in his school at Tours , he writes to Charlemagne- " I here feel severely ...
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