The Pre-history of the North: Based on Contemporary MemorialsTrübner & Company, 1886 - 206 pages |
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... England Scotland and Ireland , " a work of which English and German trans- lations appeared in the next year . Hitherto English historians , relying chiefly on their manuscript authori- ties or following the lead of German writers , had ...
... England Scotland and Ireland , " a work of which English and German trans- lations appeared in the next year . Hitherto English historians , relying chiefly on their manuscript authori- ties or following the lead of German writers , had ...
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... England . The same subject was pursued by Worsaae in various subsequent writings , particularly in his " Danish Con- quest of England and Normandy " ( 1863 ) , a work which has excited far too little attention among English his- torians ...
... England . The same subject was pursued by Worsaae in various subsequent writings , particularly in his " Danish Con- quest of England and Normandy " ( 1863 ) , a work which has excited far too little attention among English his- torians ...
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... England . These appear sufficient to prove that the first new settlers , who frequently had their abode in mountain - caves or under overhanging cliffs , and who were coeval with the mammoth cave- bear cave - hyena rhinoceros and many ...
... England . These appear sufficient to prove that the first new settlers , who frequently had their abode in mountain - caves or under overhanging cliffs , and who were coeval with the mammoth cave- bear cave - hyena rhinoceros and many ...
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... England and Denmark , joined in bygone ages . The Baltic also , bursting through and forming belts and sounds , had severed the great Scandinavian peninsula the Danish islands and the peninsula of Jutland from one another . Coming from ...
... England and Denmark , joined in bygone ages . The Baltic also , bursting through and forming belts and sounds , had severed the great Scandinavian peninsula the Danish islands and the peninsula of Jutland from one another . Coming from ...
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... England , and even regular flint mines with extensive subterranean passages . Larger and handsomer implements were here produced in great numbers , and a considerable traffic carried on even with distant regions . Many of the flint ...
... England , and even regular flint mines with extensive subterranean passages . Larger and handsomer implements were here produced in great numbers , and a considerable traffic carried on even with distant regions . Many of the flint ...
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