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Most ingenious of all, perhaps, were the Scots, who bragged, with a formidable disregard for plausibility, that they were originally from Egypt, descendants of the same Pharaoh's daughter who had discovered Moses in the bulrushes - and whose name, so they cheerfully insisted, in a manner designed to clinch their argument, had been Princess Scota.
— Jan 27, 2020 11:55PM
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The seductions of a concubine, the perfumes of a pie: both, as a matter of the utmost urgency, had to be kept at bay.
— Jan 29, 2020 08:25AM
William
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The seductions of a concubine, the perfumes of a pie: both, as a matter of the utmost urgency, had to be kept at bay.
— Jan 29, 2020 08:24AM
William
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Olaf Trygvasson was a Norwegian, a man of the 'North Way', a realm so far distant from all that made for Christian order that even its women, it was said, grew beards, 'and sorcerers and enchanters and other satellites of Antrichrist' swarmed everywhere.
— Jan 26, 2020 08:43AM
William
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Nothing, indeed, in the fractured Europe of the time, was more authentically multicultural than the business of enslaving Slavs.
— Jan 23, 2020 12:26PM
William
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By the terms of a treaty signed that year, Henry had agreed to hand over a chunk of the province of Swabia - what is now Switzerland and Alsace - in exchange for a treasure 'infinitely precious': a spear of terrible power. No one doubted that it was the Saxon king who had secured the bargain by this arrangement.
— Jan 22, 2020 01:04PM
