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... Egils Saga , designed to accompany the text of my friend Sigurður Nordal . Now Egils Saga is the foremost Viking saga , and two notable and extensive portions of it tell of great events in England , at Brunanburh and York . Second , it ...
... Egils Saga , designed to accompany the text of my friend Sigurður Nordal . Now Egils Saga is the foremost Viking saga , and two notable and extensive portions of it tell of great events in England , at Brunanburh and York . Second , it ...
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... Egils Saga of a great battle between Athel- stan and the Scots is tantalizingly like and unlike the historical account of the battle of Brunanburh . At Vínheiðr Athelstan with an army of English and Norsemen crushed a Scottish invasion ...
... Egils Saga of a great battle between Athel- stan and the Scots is tantalizingly like and unlike the historical account of the battle of Brunanburh . At Vínheiðr Athelstan with an army of English and Norsemen crushed a Scottish invasion ...
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... Egils Saga ) , though he is largely responsible for the clouded view of her bequeathed to later historians , at least saw one aspect of the truth unperceived by other sagamen . She is the second person in Egils Saga ( the other is king ...
... Egils Saga ) , though he is largely responsible for the clouded view of her bequeathed to later historians , at least saw one aspect of the truth unperceived by other sagamen . She is the second person in Egils Saga ( the other is king ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir Charles Webster | 2 |
HERO AND LEANDER Warton Lecture on English Poetry By C S Lewis | 23 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANALYSIS Philosophical Lecture By Brand | 39 |
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