Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Historical works are chiefly records of battles, squabbles and intrigues of diplomatists and politicians. More details now required as to the domestic habits and conditions of the people, and the degree and kind of intellectual and moral culture which obtained at any given per...
Upwards of three centuries had elapsed since the departure of the Roman legions from Britain, and the presumedly first regularly organised invasion of the island by the Angles,...
5. CHAPTER I.It has often been remarked, and with some truth, that our standard historical works, until very recent times at least, contained little more than the details of battles, the squ...
7. chapter x., book iii., he says--"About the same time, another person of the British nation, _as is reported_, happened to travel by the same place, where the aforesaid battle was fought, and observing one part...
8. CHAPTER III.WADA'S DEFEAT BY KING EARDULPH, AT BILLANGAHOH, A.D. 798, AND CONTEMPORARY PROPHETIC SUPERSTITIONS. THE VICTORY OF THE SCOTS AT EDISFORD BRIDGE IN 1138. CIVIL WAR INCIDENTS BETW...
6. CHAPTER II.The Venerable Bede, in the ninth chapter of his "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation," says, in the year 642--"Oswald was killed in a great battle, by the same Pagan na...
4. CHAPTER IV.--Athelstan's great Victory at Brunanburh, A.D. 937, and itsAnglo-Saxon and Scandinavian invasions of Britain. First arrival of the Danes, A.D. 787. The Anglo-Saxons and Ancient British inhabitants Christians, the Scandinavians Pagans. S...
1. CHAPTER I.--Early Historical and Legendary Battles.Historical works are chiefly records of battles, squabbles and intrigues of diplomatists and politicians. More details now required as to the domestic habits and conditions of t...
2. CHAPTER II.--The Defeat and Death of King Oswald, of Northumbria, by theThe Venerable Bede and the Saxon Chronicle's account of the battle. The site disputed. Some suggest Winwick, in Lancashire, others Oswestry, in Shropshire. Dean Howson's suggest...
3. CHAPTER III.--Battles in the Valley of the Ribble near Whalley and_Wada's Defeat by King Eardulph, at Billangahoh (Langho,) A.D. 798, and Contemporary Prophetic Superstitions. The Victory of the Scots at Edisford Bridge in 1138. Civil War Inci...