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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abbot Æthelred ÆTHELSTAN Agricola Alfred Anglian army arrows attack banner Battle of Hastings blood Boadicea brave Britain British Britons burned Caesar called camp Canute Caractacus castle chief Christian coast Conqueror Conquest crown daeg Danes Danish dark death defeated dreadful dress drove Druids Duke Dunstan Edwin Edwy Egbert Ellendune England English Ethelred eyes FELICIA HEMANS fell fight forests gathered GEOFFREY of Anjou gold Harold Hastings heard heart Henry Hereward hill horse island Kent killed King Arthur knight land lived London married Maud Mercia monks nobles Norman Conquest NORMAN LINE Normandy Northumbria o'er Picts priest Prince Reign Robert Roman Rome round ROYAL HISTORY READER Rufus rushed Saxons Scotland Scots seized slaves soldiers spears Stephen stood sword throne took tower trees tribes triumph UMBRIA victory Vortigern walls wave Wessex White Ship wild William William the Conqueror wood wooden
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three Queens with crowns of gold — and from them rose A cry that...
Seite 46 - Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro
Seite 45 - And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the Northern Sea.
Seite 46 - My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die." So saying, from the pavement he half rose, Slowly, with pain, reclining on his arm, And looking wistfully with wide blue eyes As in a picture. Him Sir Bedivere Remorsefully regarded thro...
Seite 46 - And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard: "My end draws nigh; 'tis time that I were gone. Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight, And bear me to the margin; yet I fear My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die.
Seite 32 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish, — write that word In the blood that she has spilt; Perish hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Seite 46 - And caught him by the hilt, and brandish' d him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. And lightly went the other to the King. Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath : " Now see I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out : what is it thou hast heard, or seen...
Seite 47 - But she, that rose the tallest of them all And fairest, laid his head upon her lap, And loosed the...
Seite 33 - Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. " Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.
Seite 45 - So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere.