Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon periodJ.W. Parker, 1842 - Anglo-Norman literature |
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... popular creed , still held their places ; for the Christian missionaries themselves believed in the spiritual and un- seen world as extensively as their converts . The only difference was , that , whilst elsewhere these beings retained ...
... popular creed , still held their places ; for the Christian missionaries themselves believed in the spiritual and un- seen world as extensively as their converts . The only difference was , that , whilst elsewhere these beings retained ...
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... popularity at that time . And at the same time , as we learn from Hereward's anonymous biographer , there was one ... popular mind ever connects its tra- ditions with some object which is constantly before the Godwinus Gille , qui ...
... popularity at that time . And at the same time , as we learn from Hereward's anonymous biographer , there was one ... popular mind ever connects its tra- ditions with some object which is constantly before the Godwinus Gille , qui ...
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... popular but no less remarkable hero of the nursery , the famous Jack - the - Giant - Killer , the all- powerful hammer and the girdle of strength of the god having been replaced by the equally efficient sword of sharpness and the cap of ...
... popular but no less remarkable hero of the nursery , the famous Jack - the - Giant - Killer , the all- powerful hammer and the girdle of strength of the god having been replaced by the equally efficient sword of sharpness and the cap of ...
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... popular , though dressed in the same style of poetry to which their hearers had been so long accustomed . The zeal of many of the more influential converts led them , probably , to encourage these compositions by all the means in their ...
... popular , though dressed in the same style of poetry to which their hearers had been so long accustomed . The zeal of many of the more influential converts led them , probably , to encourage these compositions by all the means in their ...
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... monk . Eadfred died in 721. A very interesting popular account of this manuscript is given in Brayley's Graphic Illustrator , p . 355 , Let also in some measure by my own humble labours 36 [ Introd . MULTIPLICATION OF BOOKS .
... monk . Eadfred died in 721. A very interesting popular account of this manuscript is given in Brayley's Graphic Illustrator , p . 355 , Let also in some measure by my own humble labours 36 [ Introd . MULTIPLICATION OF BOOKS .
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