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The History of Early English Literature; Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Lfred

The History of Early English Literature; Being the History of English Poetry from Its Beginnings to the Accession of King Lfred

Brooke, Stopford Augustus

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ISBN10: 1231209771
ISBN13: 9781231209776
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.47 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...we might have looked for a fresh development of literature. But fate was against this hope. The Vikings had already made their first descent in 787 on the coast of Dorsetshire; and in 833 Ecgberht, warned by their ravaging of Ireland, Frisia, Scotland, France, and the Northern Islands, held a Witan to concert measures of defence against them. In 832 (4?) they descended on Sheppey, and the next year they came 1 Another war-verse belongs to the next reign, to the victory won over the Danes at Oekley in 851--Men like corn in mowing time fell in both these mighty hosts. to Charmouth. Those who had allied themselves with the Cornishmen were defeated by Ecgberht at Hengestdun in 835. They fell on London in 839, and plundered Rochester. 838 had found them in Lindsey and East Anglia, and on the coast of Kent. In 845 they were defeated on the Parret in Somersetshire. Up to this time the attacks had been desultory coastraids. But in 851 Rorik, with a fleet of 350 sail, entered the mouth of the Thames, sailed up inside of Thanet, and up the Stour to Canterbury which he sacked with furious slaughter, and passed on to London, where he defeated Berhtwulf the Mercian King and entered the lands north of the Thames. Thence the Vikings went into Surrey, and were driven back in a great battle by jEthelwulf, King of Wessex. Nevertheless, in spite of English victories by land and sea, the Vikings wintered for the first time in England in the year 851(?), and held their place, till in 855 they transferred their winter camp to Sheppey. In 860 Winchester, the capital of Wessex, was plundered, and in 865, a great army wintered in Thanet, and devastated Kent. Then came the Danes in 866--The Army, --resolute to conquer and settle instead of merely raiding like the Vikings....

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