The Great Drama of 1066 (With An Introductory Chapter On the Oldest History of England)
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The system by which his burhs were maintained was not unhke that which Henry the First employed in Germany a generation later — probably the latter borrowed the idea from England. To each stronghold, whether an old city like Winchester (the capital of Wessex) or Rochester, newly fortified, or a modern fortress created for strategical reasons, there was allotted a district consisting of a certain number of hides of land around it. All the thegns dwelling on these hides were responsible for its d...efence: apparently they were bound to keep up a house within it, and either to reside there in person or to place a com- petent fighting man therein as a substitute.
When, at the end of the year 892, the Danes came over again, in the old plundering and burning way, among them the fierce Hasting, the most famous of all the Viking leaders of this age, whose name had been the terror of the Western Franks for thirty years, and whose ravages had extended even to the Mediterranean, King Aelfred was able to drive them away after a war of three years.
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The system by which his burhs were maintained was not unhke that which Henry the First employed in Germany a generation later — probably the latter borrowed the idea from England. To each stronghold, whether an old city like Winchester (the capital of Wessex) or Rochester, newly fortified, or a modern fortress created for strategical reasons, there was allotted a district consisting of a certain number of hides of land around it. All the thegns dwelling on these hides were responsible for its d...efence: apparently they were bound to keep up a house within it, and either to reside there in person or to place a com- petent fighting man therein as a substitute.
When, at the end of the year 892, the Danes came over again, in the old plundering and burning way, among them the fierce Hasting, the most famous of all the Viking leaders of this age, whose name had been the terror of the Western Franks for thirty years, and whose ravages had extended even to the Mediterranean, King Aelfred was able to drive them away after a war of three years.
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