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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ENGLAND AND NORWAY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. (1865) The reign of Edward the Confessor in England was really the rule of Earl Godwin and his sons. The foundations of the fortune of that family had been laid in exile. Already, in the year 1009, in the reign of Ethelred the Unready, Brihtric, the brother of the arch-traitor Edric Streon, had slandered Wulfnoth the Child, a noble Thane of the South Saxons, to his weak-minded master; and that too at the very moment when a mighty fleet was gathered together to meet a threatened invasion of the Danes. The result was that Wulfnoth went into banishment, with twenty ships, and wasted the south coast asEARL GODWIN. 195 I. Del Norske Folks Historic. P. A. Munch. Vols. i. ii. iii. Christiania, 1852-55. 2. Den Danske Erobring af England og Normandiet. J. J. A. Worsaae. Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghhandling, 1863. 3. 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Edited by Benjamin Thorpe, for the Master of the Rolls. London, Longmans, 1861. 2 vols. 4. Lives of Edward the Confessor. Edited by H. R. Luard, M.A., for the Master of the Rolls. London, Longmans, 1858. he went. Brihtric sailed after him with 180 ships, and boasted that he would bring the traitor back quick or dead; but a great storm arose, the ships were dashed against each other, and driven on shore in a shattered state. Then Wulfnoth fell on them, and burned Brihtric's ships. When the news came to the King, he and his Witan were reft of counsel. They were all as unready as their lord; and the end of that great armament was that every man went to his home, and England was as defenceless as ever, when Thorkell the Tall came with his huge hostile host, after Lammas-tide, to revenge his brother Sigvald's death, who had fallen in the massacre of St. Brice's Day. But...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217853767 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217853765 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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