| Joseph Ritson - 1828 - 280 pages
...pmtiticps, hostibus fusis sine sanguine, triumphant victoria fide obtenta, non viribus.* CCCCXLIX. The nation of the Angles, or Saxons, being invited by the aforesaid king, is carried into Britain in three long ships. . • . The contest, therefore, being begun with the enemy,... | |
| Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1849 - 566 pages
...year of our Lord 449, Martian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the...Saxons,* being invited by the aforesaid king, arrived in * It is now beginning to be generally understood that the Saxons Britain with three long ships, and... | |
| Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 490 pages
...Lord's Incarnation 449, Martian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the...island, that they might thus appear to be fighting for the country, whilst their real intentions were to enslave it. Accordingly, they engaged with the enemy,... | |
| 1853 - 496 pages
...Lord's Incarnation 449, Martian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the...island, that they might thus appear to be fighting for the country, whilst their real intentions were to enslave it. Accordingly, they engaged with the enemy,... | |
| Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pages
...year of our Lord 449, Martian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the...place assigned them to reside in by the same king, that they might thus appear to be fighting for their country, while their real intentions were to enslave... | |
| Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1863 - 714 pages
...than this: — In the year of our Lord's incarnation 449, Martian being made emperor with Yalentinian, the nation of the Angles or Saxons being invited by the aforesaid king — that is, Vortigern, king of the Britons — arrived in Britain with three long ships, and had a... | |
| George Punchard - 1865 - 618 pages
...to quarrel with the Britons; threw off the mask of friendship, and, * Bede says (bk. I., ch. 15) : " The nation of the Angles, or Saxons, being invited by the aforesaid king (Vortigern, eh. 14), arrired in Britain in three long ships, and had a place assigned them to reside... | |
| Oscar Browning - 1884 - 168 pages
...relationship, moot, a public assembly. THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND. 1. THEN the nation of the Angles, or Saxons, arrived in Britain, with three long ships, and had a place assigned them to reside in by the king, in the eastern part of the island, that they might thus appear to be fighting for the country,... | |
| William Forbes Skene - 1886 - 570 pages
...Lord's incarnation 449, Martian, being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the...with three long ships, and had a place assigned them M In Oceano vero occidentali est grassatores Hiberni domus,' which insula quse dicitur Britannia, ubi... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...year of our Lord 449, Martian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years. Then the nation of the Angles or Saxons, 1 The Chronicle at this point seems largely to follow Bede. being invited by the aforesaid king,1 arrived... | |
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