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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. 1881 Excerpt: ...became like one large field of battle. Farm-houses were burnt, and the farm-workers were killed, and their dead bodies lay unburied in the fields. No seed was sown in spring, and therefore in autumn hunger came to help the swords of the Danes. The air was black with the smoke of burning towns, and the ground was strewn with ashes. At last Ethelred the Unready fled, and left his people to their fate. He took his Norman wife Emma, and his two children, Alfred and Edward, with him. And they went to Normandy, where the brother of Emma was at that time the duke. And this brother gave his sister and her husband and children food and shelter; but he sent no soldiers to England to help to drive away the Danes. Thus Sweyn, King of Denmark, was left free to work his will, and to make himself King of England. And he did so. LESSON XXII. How Canute and Edmund Ironside divided the Kingdom. In these sad times for the country, when its King was running aWay, and its nobles joined its foes, and its people starved, there was one man who was true to his country and his God. That was the head of the Church, Elfeg, the archbishop of Canterbury. For the Danes, with English nobles in their ranks, came against his city of Canterbury. And Elfeg at the head of his people, tried to keep them out. Then after twenty days of waiting before the city, a wicked traitor threw open its gates to them. The Danes got in, and burnt the city, and carried away the people to make slaves of them. Then they took the archbishop and kept him seven months in chains; for they thought that, as he was such a great man in the Church, his friends would give them a great sum of money to set him free. Such a sum paid to free one from prison is called a ransom. But Elfeg would pay no ransom. ' I will not buy m...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236302274
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236302273
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr

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