Portal:Cheshire/Quotes/16

Never had huger Slaughter of heroes Slain by the sword-edge — Such as old writers Have writ of in histories — Hapt in this isle, since Up from the East hither Saxon and Angle from Over the broad billow Broke into Britain with Haughty war-workers who Harried the Welshman, when Earls that were lured by the Hunger of glory gat Hold of the land.

From Battle of Brunanburh (c. 10th century), translated by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1880) More quotations