Capitolo 35
passing the winter in their new quarters, as if theirs were at home.
During this whole duration, despite the coolness and the deliberation
with which these avengers of their murdered farmer acted, the
fires of their resentment and revenge were slowly but firmly
burning, and as soon as the spring opened, they put on in
order of battle, and it marched in the dominoes of Her. She did everybody
what possible to make to meet was and opporrli but the spirit of
retaliation and the anger that had called its cruelties were too much strong to
is withstood to. Its country was devastated, his/her army was defeated, he was
taken prisoner and the dying terrors and the agonies of Ragnar among the
snakes were expiated by worse tortures ten times that they inflicted
on the mutilated body of Her, from a horrible too trial to be described.
After having brought defeasible with success so the great object of them
for consignment, would have been hoped that they had left the island
and he/she returns to their Danish houses. But they didn't show disposition
to do this. On the contrary one, they started a course of devastation and
it conquers in all the parts of England that it continued for many years.
The parts of the country that it tried of opporrli that they has destroyed
from fire and sword. They grabbed city, they furnished of garrison and they occupied them,
and fixed in them as if fabbricarloro their permanent houses. One
I reign after another you/he/she was subjugated. The kingdom of Wessex seemed alone
to remain, and that was the subject of dispute. Ethelred was the king.
Danish advanced in its dominoes to attach him/it. In the battle
that achieved, Ethelred was killed. The successor to his/her throne was his
brother Alfred, the subject of this history that so it was found
suddenly called and to the sudden one above to take him the responsibilities
and the powers of supreme command, in as dark and trying a crisis of
national calamity and danger as you/he/she can be conceived well. The way in
what Alfred acted in the emergency, while freeing his/her country from her