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...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ours to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the brave chieftains' faces. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of his lord to day, or he flies... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 1256 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives VOL. II. Y n OOK an^ daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great chieftain's... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 580 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ourmen to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wive* VOL. II. t BOOK .i" ' daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great... | |
 | Britons - Great Britain - 1839 - 186 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize, and cruelly abuse the wives and daughters of our thanes. The slave of yesterday becomes the master... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 480 pages
...Ethelred the Unready, says, in one of his Sermons, speaking of the Danes, "Two or three will always drive a troop of captive Christians through the country, from sea to sea. This also clearly intimates, that the Danes at this period still remained pagans, at least the greatest... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize Ihe wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1841 - 636 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly i CHAPTER X. The Reign of Edmund Ironside. AT length the sceptre of the Anglo-Saxons came into the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1841 - 636 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...Very often they seize the wives and daughters of our thane?, and cruelly CHAPTER X. The Reign of Edmund Ironside. AT length the sceptre of the Anglo-Saxons... | |
 | Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - Genealogy - 1850 - 614 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our's to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the brave chieftains' face." Nor does the yoke related to have been imposed by... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - Ireland - 1850 - 612 pages
...ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our 's to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the brave chieftains' face." Nor does the yoke related to have been imposed by... | |
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They ravage, burn, spoil, and plunder, and carry off our property to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. 
