... with grass, and of mounds thatare the burial-places of heaps of Britons, are to be seen in almost all parts of the country. Across the bleakmoors of Northumberland, the wall of SEVERUS, overrun ... better right to the throne of Wessex than BEORTRIC, another Saxon prince who was at the head of that kingdom, and who married EDBURGA, the daughter of OFFA, king of another of the seven kingdoms.This ... prow whereofthe figure of a golden boy stood pointing towards England. By day, the banner of the three Lions of Normandy, the diverse coloured sails, the gilded vans, the many decorations of this...