Chronicon Manniae et insularum

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John Robert Oliver
Manx Society, 1860 - 87 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 68 - It was some alleviation of the deep sorrow of the beholders to see the corpse of their departed sovereign so decorated. High mass was then sung for the deceased. The nobility kept watch by the body during the night. On Monday the remains of King Haco were carried to St Magnus Church, where they lay in state that night.
الصفحة 59 - One of them was in royal robes, but very stern, ruddy in countenance, something thick, and of middling size. Another seemed of a slender make, but active, and of all men the most engaging and majestic. The third again, was of very great stature, but his features were distorted, and of all the rest he was the most unsightly. They addressed their speech to the king, and enquired whether he meant to invade the Hebrides. Alexander thought he answered that he certainly proposed to subject these Islands....
الصفحة 18 - Oswy, the brother of Oswald; the eighth was Egbert, king of the West-Saxons. This same Egbert led an army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, where they met him, and offered terms...
الصفحة 2 - We could discover nothing about this by inquiries; but, by exact water measurements, we observed that the nights were shorter than on the Continent. The length of this side, according to the belief of the natives, is seven hundred miles. The third side bears northwards, and has no land confronting it; the angle, however, of that side faces on the whole towards Germany. The side is supposed to be eight hundred miles long.
الصفحة 38 - Turreham, a town belonging to the said Harold, and destroyed his castle at that place. Accordingly, Harold, perceiving that the king would entirely lay waste his lands, came to the king's feet, and threw himself upon his mercy, the more especially, as there was a storm raging at sea, and the wind was contrary to him when attempting to reach the Orkney islands : he also made oath to the king, that he would bring to him all his enemies, on the next occasion that the king should return to Moray, and...
الصفحة 5 - Timaeus historicus a Britannia introrsus sex dierum navigatione abesse dicit insulam Mictim, in qua candidum plumbum proveniat. Ad eam Britannos vitilibus navigiis corio circumsutis navigare.
الصفحة 24 - Hugo, earl of Shrewsbury, put the first to flight, and the second to death. The sons of the last Magnus, Hasten and Siward...
الصفحة 13 - Istorini filius, tenuit Dalrieta cum suis ; Builc autem cum suis tenuit Euboniam insulam, et alias circiter; filii autem Liethan obtinuerunt in regione Demetorum et in aliis regionibus, id est, Guir et Cetgueli, donee expulsi sunt a Cuneda et a filiis ejus ab omnibus Brittanicis regionibus.
الصفحة 165 - Manniae," edited from the Cottonian MS. by Professor Munch of Christiania (1860). It will be seen that the Chronicle also mentions the decisive victory of Hugh de Laci in the summer of 1204 (ante, voL iii. p. 308). "Anno mcciiii. (1204) Hugo de Lacy venit cum exercitu Ultoniam et commisit bellum cum Johanne de Cursi, eumque comprehendit et vinculis mancipavit, et Ultoniam sibi subjugavit. Postea vero Johannem liberum ire permisit. Qui cum dimissus esset venit ad regem Reginaldum, a quo honorifice...

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