 | Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 pages
...strengthen it. This, the King Ethelred,' — his name, you know, is Adalradr in the original, — ' attacked and forcibly fought against ; but by the...Ramparts and Castles that were defended on the top by penthouse-bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast those who were fighting in them :... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 442 pages
...shore." Snorro prefaces his details of the battle by the following description of the Bridge : — " There was, at that time, a Bridge erected over the...were erected Ramparts and Castles that were defended at the top by penthouse-bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast those who were fighting... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 442 pages
...shore." Snorro prefaces his details of the battle by the following description of the Bridge : — " There was, at that time, a Bridge erected over the...were erected Ramparts and Castles that were defended at the top by penthouse-bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast those who were fighting... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...battle, (the first assault having proved unsuccessful) by the following description of the Bridge : — " There was, at that time, a Bridge erected over the...upon the river, were erected ramparts and castles, which were defended at the top by pent-house bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 432 pages
...battle, (the first assault having proved unsuccessful) by the following description of the Bridge : — " There was, at that time, a Bridge erected over the...upon the river, were erected ramparts and castles, which were defended at the top by pent-house bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1839 - 544 pages
...strengthen it. This the King Ethelred,' — his name, you know, is Adalradr in the original, — ' attacked and forcibly fought against ; but by the...those parts which looked upon the River, were erected Rampart* and Castles that were defended on the top by penthouse-bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pages
...Bridge, between the Londoners and Ethelred the Unready, AD 1008. " They " (the Danes) " first come to shore at London, where their ships were to remain,...ramparts and castles that were defended on the top by penthouse bulwarks and sheltered turrets, covering to the breast those who were fighting in them :... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1862 - 546 pages
...strengthen it. This the King Ethelred,' — his name, you know, is Adalradr in the original, — ' attacked and forcibly fought against ; but by the...wide, that if two carriages met they could pass each others At the sides of the Bridge, at those parts which looked upon the River, were erected Ramparts... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...other side of the river is situate a great market called Southwark — Sudurvirke in the original — which the Danes fortified with many defences; framing,...if two carriages met they could pass each other." This structure King Olave and his Norsemen destroyed by rowing their ships up close to the bridge,... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - 518 pages
...as befitted Londoners to build. ' There was at that time'—ie AD 1008—says the old chronicler,' a bridge erected over the river between the city and...could pass each other. At the sides of the bridge, which looked upon the river, castles and ramparts were erected, with breastworks, to shelter those... | |
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Ethelred attacked, and forcibly fought against, but, by the resistance of the Danes, it proved but a vain endeavour. There was at that time a bridge erected over the river between the City and Southwark, so wide, that if two carriages met they could pass... 
