Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... death - bed , he not unfrequently uttered his thoughts in passages taken from the national poets . One of these passages is preserved by a writer who was with him in his last moments , and is thus printed in Asser's Annals : -t for tham ...
... death - bed , he not unfrequently uttered his thoughts in passages taken from the national poets . One of these passages is preserved by a writer who was with him in his last moments , and is thus printed in Asser's Annals : -t for tham ...
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... death to the valiant . þa wearð snelra werod snude ge - gearewod , cénra to campe ; stópon cyne - rófe secgas and gesiðas , bæron bufas , fóron to ge - feohte ford on ge - rihte , hæle under helmum , of þære haligran byrig , on bæet dæg ...
... death to the valiant . þa wearð snelra werod snude ge - gearewod , cénra to campe ; stópon cyne - rófe secgas and gesiðas , bæron bufas , fóron to ge - feohte ford on ge - rihte , hæle under helmum , of þære haligran byrig , on bæet dæg ...
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... death of the " calderman " Byrhtnoth , in 993 , which furnishes us with an interesting picture of Anglo - Saxon feelings . The speeches which are put into the mouths of Byrhtnoth's noble followers , the " lofty thanes " ( wlance pegenas ) ...
... death of the " calderman " Byrhtnoth , in 993 , which furnishes us with an interesting picture of Anglo - Saxon feelings . The speeches which are put into the mouths of Byrhtnoth's noble followers , the " lofty thanes " ( wlance pegenas ) ...
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... death in the battle : that is to me the greatest of griefs , - he was both my kinsman and my lord . Leofsunu ge - mælde , and his linde ahof , bord to ge - beorge , he þam beorne on - cwæð : Ic þæt ge - háte , þæt ic heonon nelle fleón ...
... death in the battle : that is to me the greatest of griefs , - he was both my kinsman and my lord . Leofsunu ge - mælde , and his linde ahof , bord to ge - beorge , he þam beorne on - cwæð : Ic þæt ge - háte , þæt ic heonon nelle fleón ...
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... death . Alfred himself led the way in trans- lating the Latin books into Anglo - Saxon . Among the works which we owe to his pen , the most important are translations of the Pastorale of Gregory , destined more particularly for the use ...
... death . Alfred himself led the way in trans- lating the Latin books into Anglo - Saxon . Among the works which we owe to his pen , the most important are translations of the Pastorale of Gregory , destined more particularly for the use ...
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