This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...mothers. But in old times, first the Romans, then the Saxons and other German tribes, then the Danes, and, last of all, the Normans, came into England in fierce multitudes, and spread misery and death around them. 3. I have to speak to you now of the Danes, who are the people of Denmark, and were for over two hundred ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...mothers. But in old times, first the Romans, then the Saxons and other German tribes, then the Danes, and, last of all, the Normans, came into England in fierce multitudes, and spread misery and death around them. 3. I have to speak to you now of the Danes, who are the people of Denmark, and were for over two hundred years the dreaded invaders of England. They were brave sailors, and used to sweep across the North Sea in great fleets of open boats, which were the only ships in those days. But they were also very cruel, and they were, besides, very angry at.the English people for leaving the worship of idols and turning Christians, and so, wherever they landed, they plundered the churches, burned the houses, and murdered all the people they could, both old and young. 4. This had lasted for about seventy years, when a little child was born at Wantage, in Berkshire, who grew up to be the deliverer of England, and the wisest and best king it ever had. His name was Alfred, and he was born in the year 849. 5. Alfred was so fortunate as to have a very good mother, who took great care to teach him to fear God in his childhood, and to do what was kind and right to everyone. But she died when he was only a little child. The Danes were harrying the country, at every point where their ships could land them, during all the earliest years of Alfred's life; so that he would hear of them as soon as he had sense enough to understand what those around him were talking about. At one time they would land from hundreds of their boats, in Devonshire; then, they would run up the Thames, and land in Kent or Essex, or Surrey; and sometimes they even stayed all the winter in England. G. When Alfred was four years old his father Ethelwulf sent him to Rome, in the charge of a number o...
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