| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1851 - 428 pages
...murdered him. " A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabouts fought two of his (Swein's) ships with their ships, and slew all the men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king," who discharged nine ships from pay. The unsettled allegiance of the fleet was again displayed at Bosham... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1851 - 388 pages
...murdered him. " A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabouts fought two of his (Swein's) ships with their ships, and slew all the men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king," who discharged nine ships from pay. The unsettled allegiance of the fleet was again displayed at Bosham... | |
| Anglo-Saxon chronicle - 1853 - 448 pages
...with king Cnut his uncle. A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabout, fought two of his ships with their ships ; and slew all the men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king. Eight ships he had before he betrayed Beorn; after that all forsook him except two. In the same year... | |
| 1853 - 440 pages
...with king Cnut his uncle. A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabout, fought two of his ships with their ships ; and slew all the men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king. Eight ships he had before he tetrayed Beorn ; after that all forsook him except two. In the same year... | |
| Mary Matilda Howard - 1855 - 444 pages
...i., p. 169. •t Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. vii., p. 1. before this the men of Hastings and thereabouts fought his two ships with their ships, and slew all...men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the King. Eight ships had he ere he betrayed Beorn, afterwards they all forsook him except two." He seems then... | |
| Benjamin Thorpe - 1861 - 352 pages
...buried by king Cnut his uncle. A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabouts won two of his ships with their ships, and slew all the men, and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king. He had eight ships before he inveigled Biorn ; after that all forsook him but two. In the same year... | |
| Hastings corporation - 1866 - 52 pages
...1050. "A little before that, the men of Hastings and thereabout " fought two of his (Swein, the Earl's) Ships with their Ships, and slew all the men, and brought the " Ships to Sandwich to the King." And in the same Chronicle, 1052. "And during the time that he (Godwin) was here in the " land, he enticed... | |
| British Archaeological Association - 1867 - 462 pages
...1050, we read in the Saxon Chronicle, that the men of Hastings and thereabouts fought two of Godwin's ships with their ships, and slew all the men and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king ; and two years afterwards, we find her fighting 1 Owing to the statement of Hastings having been submitted... | |
| Ford Madox Ford - 1900 - 540 pages
...The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells one that " the men of Hastings and thereabout fought two of Sweins ships with their ships, and slew all the men and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king." This was during the revolt of Godwin against the Confessor. Shortly afterwards the men of the town... | |
| 1909 - 346 pages
...kingKnut his uncle. A little before that the men of Hastings and [the district] thereabout won two of his ships with their ships; and slew all the men and brought the ships to Sandwich to the king. Eight ships he had, before he betrayed Beorn ; afterwards all save two forsook him. In the same year... | |
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