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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 110 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 13)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare .586.

586.

The Norvve|gians skoure the ſeas, and inuade the yles of Orkney.

the Norwegians had got dominion ouer the Ilandes in the north Weaſt Ocean called the Iles of Orkeney, and ſkoured the Seas that none other nation [...]urſte vnnethe appeare in ſight for dread of them. A people gi|uen greately to ſeeke the Conqueſtes of other Realmes, as they that coulde not fayle to fynde more warme and fruitefull places for EEBO page image 14 to inhabite than theyr owne.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 111 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe fellowes chaunced to light into Ire|lande by this meanes,They inuade Irelande. Caraticus king of Bry|taine ranne into ſuche hatred of his people that they rayſed warres agaynſt him.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 112 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Saxons that poſſeſſed now ſixe ſeuerall kingdomes in the Ile of Brytayne, reioyſed not a little at this ciuill diſcorde betwixt the Bry|tayne king and his ſubiects, wherevpon meaning to make a full conqueſt of the Brytaines, and vt|terly to expulſe them forth of the whole Ile, aſ|ſembled their powers & ioyned to the ſame Gur|mũdus,Gurmundus an Archpyrate of the nation of Norway. a notable rouer of the Norwegians, who hauing at all tymes a Nauie in a readineſſe, and men to furniſhe it, holpe the Saxons to chaſe the Brytaynes into the Marches of Wales. For from thence (being retyred into the Moun|taynes and Wooddes) they coulde not dryue them.

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