History of the Anglo-Saxons: From the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest
History of the Anglo-Saxons: From the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest
Thomas Miller
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Those who had befriended him in his exile came over — such as had grown up side by side with him till they reached manhood — had shared his sports and pastimes — dined at the same table with him when, without friend or companion, except his brother Alfred, he landed a stranger upon the shores of Normandy; — all such as had clung to him, and assisted him while he was in exile, now came over to congratulate their old acquaintance who had so suddenly emerged from his obscu- rity, and become, by th...e voice of the whole Saxon nation, and the tacit consent of the overawed and powerless Danes, the un- disputed monarch of England. Edward, on the other hand, landed in his native country almost a stranger; he brought with him foreign habits, foreign manners, and even spake the Norman- French more fluently than the plain Saxon tongue of his an- cestors. He was but a child when he left England, and nearly 274 HISTOKY OF ENGLAND. thirty years residence in a foreign court must have caused his native language to have sounded harshly on his ears when he again landed on the shores of Britain.
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