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Title: The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892
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Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
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ma palus, quaea Grontfe fluminis ripis incipiens, hand procul a castello quod dicunt nomineGronte, nunc stagnis, nunc flactiris, interdura nigris fusis vaporibus etlaticibus, necnon crebris insularum nemoribus intervenientibus, et fiexuosisrivigarum ab austro in aquilonem mari tenus longissimo tracta protenditur. 1An Old-English version, said to be by yElfric, follows, which begins thus, Ys on Bretone lande sum fenn unmsetre mycelnysse )>gst on-ginneS framGrante ea naht feor fi-am jjsere cestre tJy ylcan nama ys nemned Grante-ceaster. The remarkable thing is that Camboritum, which in Bcedas daywas still a waste chester (see above, p. 313), is spoken of as if it werean actual town. Felix and Bjeda were contemporary, but Felix must liavebeen the younger man, and it is just possible that the town may have beenset up again before he wrote. ^ See above, p. 221. See above, p. 222. Ii< /lice fiat^e <i6l THE FKNLANl) IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. ILLUSTILXTINC. THK CAMPAIGN OF IIERRWMll).
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THE FENLAND IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. ILI,LSTR\T1NC. THE CAMIAIGN OI lUvRIWARl).

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