 | Ebenezer Josiah Newell - 1887 - 228 sider
...He had laid upon them for their sins. Bede hints that such was Cadwallon's hope ; he had resolved " to cut off all the race of the English within the borders of Britain." But had the Britons been anxious to convert the English, it was probably impossible for them to do... | |
 | 1898 - 208 sider
...spared the female sex nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put all to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time and resolving to extirpate all the race of Angles within the borders of Britain. Nor did he pay any regard to the Christian... | |
 | Albert Perry Walker - 1905 - 606 sider
...W innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all the country for a long time, and resolving to cut off...race of the English within the borders of Britain." For thirty years Penda strove to conquer Northumbria. King Edwin was slain at Heathfield (633), and... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1907 - 488 sider
...all alike to death by torture, and overran all their country in his fury for a long time, intending to cut off all the race of the English within the...Nor did he pay any respect to the Christian religion which had sprung up among them; it being to this day the custom of the Britons to despise the faith... | |
 | Armitage Goodall - 1914 - 330 sider
...himself a Christian, spared neither women nor children, but ravaged the country for a long time, ' resolving to cut off all the race of the English within the borders of Britain.' Later forms of the name include the following : DB 1086 Hcdfeld YS 1297 Haytefeuld YR 1227 Hctftld... | |
 | Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth - 1917 - 646 sider
...sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put the whole of them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time,...Nor did he pay any respect to the Christian religion which had newly taken root among them." It is plain that Bede is here describing a Celtic ruler, possessed... | |
 | Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth - 1917 - 644 sider
...sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put the whole of them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time, and resolving to cut off all 1 Bede, ii. 20. * History of Wales, i. 185, note iocs the race of the English within the borders of... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1924 - 236 sider
...spared the female sex nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put all to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time and resolving to extirpate all the race of Angles within the borders of Britain. Nor did he pay any regard to the Christian... | |
 | James Baikie - 1928 - 368 sider
...sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging their country for a long time, and resolving to cut...race of the English within the borders of Britain." In such circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that the new-found faith of the Northumbrians failed... | |
 | St Bede - 2007 - 389 sider
...spared the female sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time,...Nor did he pay any respect to the Christian religion which had newly taken root among them ; it being to this day the custom of the Britons not to pay any... | |
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Cadwalla, though he bore the name and professed himself a Christian, was so barbarous in his disposition and behaviour, that he neither spared the female sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging... 
