 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 596 pages
...Saxon Chronicle records that in 787 ' came three ships of Northmen, out of Haretha-land. And the reeve rode to the place, and would have driven them to the...Danish-men which sought the land of the English nation.' In 794 another party of these ' Northmen,' or ' heathen-men' as they are called, is said to have ravaged... | |
 | William Andrews - Derbyshire (England) - 1892 - 292 pages
...Eadburga, King Offa's daughter ; and in his days first came three ships of Northmen, out of Hceretha-land [Denmark]. And then the reve rode to the place, and...Danishmen which sought the land of the English nation." This was an early, but probably far from the earliest Danish descent, and the advent of the ' Anglo-Saxons... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - Cambridge (England) - 1897 - 344 pages
...there three ships of the Northmen out of Haeretha-land [Norway]. And then the Reeve [ie, the Sheriff] rode to the place, and would have driven them to the King's town, because he knew not what men they were. And then and there did they slay him. These were the first ships of Danish men... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 650 pages
...details. A. 787. This year king Bertric took to wife Eadburga, king Offa's daughter; and in his day first came three ships of Northmen, out of Haeretha-land...Danishmen which sought the land of the English nation. A. 855. This year the heathen men, for the first time, remained over winter in Sheppey:... A. 878.... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 642 pages
...Eadburga, king Of fa's daughter; and in his day first came three ships of Northmen, out of Hzeretha-land [Denmark]. And then the reve rode to the place, and...Danishmen which sought the land of the English nation. A. 855. This year the heathen men, for the first time, remained over winter in Sheppey:... A. 878.... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - Alfred the Great, King of England, 849-901 - 1900 - 260 pages
...first came three ships of the Northmen, out of Hx'retha-land [Norway]. And then the Reve [Sheriff] rode to the place, and would have driven them to the King's town, because he knew not what men they were. And then and there did they slay him. These were the first ships of Danish men... | |
 | William Gershom Collingwood - Great Britain - 1908 - 290 pages
...Chronicle that " three ships of Northmen [MS. A, ' of Danes '] came from Hrerethaland ; and then the reeve rode to the place, and would have driven them to the...king's town, because he knew not who they were ; and there they slew him." If there is any discrepancy between the two tales, yEthelwerd's has the advantage.... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...reeve rode to the .s,"'r<.« place, and would have driven them to the king's town, because Chronicle he knew not who they were : and they there slew him. These were the first ships of Danish men which sought the land of the English nation. AD 793. This year dire forewarnings came over... | |
 | Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...thereto and would compel them [to go] to the king's town because he knew not what they were ; and they slew him. These were the first ships of Danish-men which sought the land of the English race. 788 [E]. Here a synod was assembled in the land of the Northumbrians at Finchale on iv non. Sept.... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 pages
...of these dreaded Northmen and their settlements in our land. CHAPTER VI. THE VIKINGS AND THEIR HOME. place and would have driven them to the king's town, because he knew not who they were, and they slew him." This year then saw the advent of the Danes, who for more than two hundred years troubled... | |
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Offa's daughter ; and in his days first came three ships of Northmen, out of Haeretha-land [Denmark]. And then the reve* rode to the place, and would have driven them to the king's town, because he knew not who they were : and they there slew him. These... 
