 | 1891 - 914 pages
...extraordinary energy the 'Five Boroughs', formerly part of the Mercian kingdom, were recovered. JKthelflacd then is Mercia's Judith, for she by no ordinary strategy,...but to build fortresses and beleaguer her enemies. ' jEthelflfed, is then a suitable and worthy heroine to have stirred a contemporary poet to his theme,... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1898 - 428 pages
...extraordinary energy the "Five Boroughs," formerly part of the Mercian kingdom, were recovered. jEthelflœd then is Mercia's Judith, for she by no ordinary strategy,...but to build fortresses and beleaguer her enemies. jEthelfl*d is then a suitable and worthy heroine to have stirred a contemporary poet to his theme.... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1907 - 122 pages
...-/*Ethelflaed of Mercia, the daughter of King Alfred. Foster says (pp. 90—91): '^thelflaed, then, is Mercians Judith, for she by no ordinary strategy, we are told,...but to build fortresses and beleaguer her enemies. ./Ethelflaed is, then, a suitable and worthy heroine to have stirred a contemporary poet to his theme.... | |
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Alfred's daughter, and he arrived at the conclusion: "jEthelflaed, then, is Mercia's Judith, for she by no ordinary strategy, we are told, raised her Kingdom and people to their old position. She, like the Hebrew Judith, abandoned the older strategy of... 