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The Irish certainly resisted, and their annals from 807 onwards are full of battles with the Norwegians pressing in from the sea: battles which, if we are to believe the chroniclers, the Irish frequently won.

The St Vaast Annals cease about 900, and the monk of Reims, Flodoard, does not begin his narrative until some twenty years later.

The location of the harbour of Sliesthorp which, according to the annals, was used by Godfred, is uncertain, but as it must have been protected by his new wall it was probably somewhere on the north side of the Slie, near the present Gottorp or Slesvig.

Declan refrained from recording the rumors in the Annals of Kill Dalua, but other annalists would be less generous.

Her annals, if some clerk had set them down, would be precious as illuminating many a dark corridor in the domestic palaces of the Plantagenets.

They disclosed nothing, and the chroniclers of events in Normandy dared not set down in their annals any of the circumstances that may have come to their hearing.

In the annals of the abby of Margain in far-off Wales, a monk set down in the chronicles of his monastery the story as he had heard it perhaps considerably after the occurrence, from some source now suspected of being Guillaume de Braose or Hubert de Burgh, or some of their followings.

Likewise, the Swords gradually disappeared, one by one, until finally, the last of the mythical blades slipped mysteriously into the annals of history, three thousand years ago.

The fall of the Finlorian Empire had formed a void in the annals of history, both oral and written.

Egypt, I think it necessary to subjoin an history of two others of the like stamp, who have made no less figure in the annals of Babylon and Assyria.

A like anticipation, amounting to a great many centuries, is to be found in the annals of the Babylonians.

I have been obliged to make concerning some of the principal personages in the annals of Greece.

Roman annals to discover three inconsiderable rebellions, which were all suppressed in a few months, and without even the hazard of a battle.

The annals of the emperors exhibit a strong and various picture of human nature, which we should vainly seek among the mixed and doubtful characters of modern history.

But when they recollected the sanguinary list of murders, of executions, and of massacres, which stain almost every page of the Jewish annals, they acknowledged that the barbarians of Palestine had exercised as much compassion towards their idolatrous enemies, as they had ever shown to their friends or countrymen.