 | Gildas (st.) - 1841 - 220 sider
...again returned ; and utterly ignorant as she was of the art of war, groaned in amazement for many years under the cruelty of two foreign nations — the Scots...from the north-west, and the Picts from the north. § 15. The Britons, impatient at the assaults of the { Scots and Picts, their hostilities and dreadful... | |
 | Francis Thackeray - 1843 - 354 sider
...returned, and, " utterly ignorant as she was of the art of war, groaned in amaze" ment for many years under the cruelty of two foreign nations ; " the Scots...from the north-west, and the Picts from the north." — GILES'S Translation. AFTERWARDS ADVANCED TO THE EPISCOPACY. 77 habits ill qualified him for the... | |
 | Charles Stewart (of Killin.) - 1880 - 120 sider
...Romans under Caracalla, son of Severus. Gildas tells us that, in the time of Maximus, Britain groaned " under the cruelty of two foreign nations, the Scots...from the northwest and the Picts from the north." A legion, he says, was sent from Rome, who drove these " cruel enemies beyond the borders," and gave... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1899 - 558 sider
...protracted misery, from the death of Maximus in 387 to about 448, that Gildas writes, when he says that " Britain groaned in amazement under the cruelty of...north-west and the Picts from the north." According to the same writer, the Britons appealed to Rome, and a legion was sent into the island and inflicted... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 sider
...returned ; and utterly ignorant as she was of the art of war, she groaned in amazement for many years under the cruelty of two foreign nations —• the...from the northwest, and the Picts from the north. The Britons, rendered desperate by the assaults of the Scots and Picts, their hostilities and dreadful... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 sider
...returned ; and utterly ignorant as she was of the art of war, she groaned in amazement for many years under the cruelty of two foreign nations — the Scots...from the northwest, and the Picts from the north. The Britons, rendered desperate by the assaults of the Scots and Picts, their hostilities and dreadful... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1922 - 908 sider
...the cruelty of two foreign sions of and utterly ignorant as she was of the art of war, she groaned nations — the Scots from the northwest, and the Picts from the north. The Britons, rendered desperate by the assaults of the Scots and Picts, their hostilities and dreadful... | |
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No sooner was he gone than they returned. It is of this period of protracted misery that Gildas writes: " Britain groaned in amazement under the cruelty of two foreign nations, the Scots from the north-west, and the Picts from the north." According to... 