Capitolo 48
you disembark that is exhausted from long channels and it crossed from roads he/she built
on embankments. Dikes coast along the borders of the brooks, and
wind-mill they are takings part in perpetual toil to raise the water from the
you live in the channels from which you/he/she is brought away.
Crowland is to the confluence of two rivers that you/they indolently flow
through this apartment but the beautiful and green region. The rests of the
the old abbey is still standing, he/she built on driven poles in the marshy earth,
and they forms to the duration it foresees a very interesting mass of ruins.
The year before Alfred accessed the throne, the abbey was in his
glory; and on an occasion it furnished men of hundred_ of _two that went
out under the command of one of the monks, called Monk Joly, to connect
the armies English and struggle against Danish.
The army English was too much small despite this desperate effort
to strengthen him/it. However, they was standing every day in a compact ribbon,
protecting himself/herself/itself with their shields from the arrows of the foot
soldiers of the enemy, and with their spites from the assault of the
cavalry. At night Danish retired, as if abdicating the dispute;
but as soon as the Saxons, released now by their positions of
confinement and limitation, had separated a few, and it started to
feel rather surer, their implacable enemies they returned again and
them attached in separate masses, and with more fury that before. The
Saxons strove in vain him or to defend them or escape. As
you fast as their comrades you/he/she was killed, the survivors were standing on the heaps
of the killed ones, to earn theirs they were able that small advantage from so it disdains
an elevation. For a long time you/he/she was killed almost entirely. Some it escaped in a
wood nearby, where they placed hidden during the following in the daytime,
and then, when the obscurity of the following night came to train
them to conceal their trip, they made their way to the abbey, to
face known to his anxious prisoners the army's destruction,