A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... had no reverence for the dead , casting out the bodies of their relations to decay with as little thought as they threw away oyster - shells or THE STONE AGE 3 reindeer - bones . Traces of. 2 PREHISTORIC BRITAIN Cave-dwelling.
... had no reverence for the dead , casting out the bodies of their relations to decay with as little thought as they threw away oyster - shells or THE STONE AGE 3 reindeer - bones . Traces of. 2 PREHISTORIC BRITAIN Cave-dwelling.
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... bodies , is inaccurate . Opinions differ whether they were Goidels with a strong Iberian strain , or Iberians with a Goidelic admixture . They were probably Iberians , and at all events they were more savage than the Britons had been ...
... bodies , is inaccurate . Opinions differ whether they were Goidels with a strong Iberian strain , or Iberians with a Goidelic admixture . They were probably Iberians , and at all events they were more savage than the Britons had been ...
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... body of Jutes , and though the Jutes formed settlements of their own in the Isle of Wight and on the mainland , the difference of race and language between them and the Gewissas was not enough to prevent the two tribes from coalescing ...
... body of Jutes , and though the Jutes formed settlements of their own in the Isle of Wight and on the mainland , the difference of race and language between them and the Gewissas was not enough to prevent the two tribes from coalescing ...
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... body between the blow and his chief , and perished rather than allow him to be killed . It was even held to be disgraceful for a Gesith to return from battle alive if his chief had been slain . The word by which the chief was known was ...
... body between the blow and his chief , and perished rather than allow him to be killed . It was even held to be disgraceful for a Gesith to return from battle alive if his chief had been slain . The word by which the chief was known was ...
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... body , known as the Mercians , or men of the mark or border - land , seized on the upper valley of the Trent . North of the Humber the advance was still slower . In 547 , five years before the West Saxons attacked Sorbiodunum , Ida , a ...
... body , known as the Mercians , or men of the mark or border - land , seized on the upper valley of the Trent . North of the Humber the advance was still slower . In 547 , five years before the West Saxons attacked Sorbiodunum , Ida , a ...
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