2020年11月18日 · The Saxon Wars started in 772 with the destruction of the Saxon's most important sanctuary, Irminsul. It ended in 804, after many bloody battles and setbacks with the final conquest ofNordalbingia. Although the northeastern border of the Frankish Empire followed the Elbe, the region north of it (up to the rivers Eider and Trave), served as a ...

2012年11月17日 · The Saxon Wars In 772 CE, Charlemagne invaded pagan Saxony—what is now northwestern Germany—intending to absorb the region into his Frankish realm. However, for the next 30 years, the Saxons had to be repeatedly …

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2010年5月21日 · Yes, the Glory of Rome was a distant memory, but the Islamic Caliphate was an advanced society, Anglo-Saxon England was surprisingly vibrant, there was the Byzantine Empire in the East. It would be like someone visiting a backwater in our own time and pronouncing the whole era to be a dark age.

2022年1月31日 · The account shows Canute setting out to demonstrate that the tide would come in regardless, says Professor Simon Keynes of the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. But most modern-day analogies of Canute turn Henry of Huntingdon's account on its head.

2024年12月20日 · The more plain and satisfying our state appears, the more we may know that we are living in an unreal world. For the real world is not satisfying. The more clear become the colours and facts of Anglo-Saxon superiority, the more surely we may know we are in a dream. For the real world is not clear or plain.

2024年8月30日 · Nancy Wake (1912) Wake, who lived to the age of 98, was one of World War II's most decorated servicewomen. A New Zealand native, she left home at 16 and eventually settled in Paris.

2025年1月24日 · Greetings. A context for (1), (2) and (3) is the following life periods of some man: 2000 - 2010 - ten years of school 2010 - 2020 - ten years of a bad period (e.g. working as a janitor) 2020 - 2030 - ten years of a good period Is it possible to use "doom" for this bad period?

2018年8月26日 · There are examples of dangling prepositions dotted all over English literature, stretching back to the Anglo-Saxon era when the language first appeared. Chaucer used them, Shakespeare used them, and, more to the point, everyone that uses English uses dangling prepositions too.

2017年3月7日 · While standard English derives from the Old English Mercian dialects, the West Country dialects derive from the West Saxon dialect, which formed the earliest English language standard. Thomas Spencer Baynes claimed in 1856 that, due to its position at the heart of the Kingdom of Wessex, the relics of Anglo-Saxon accent, idiom and vocabulary ...