Capitolo 60
and more adventurous spirits in the horde. This party Ethelred
reached. Against a furious battle fights. Danish were defeated, and
driven away the earth. They ran away toward to Read. Ethelred and Alfred
I undertook them. The various parties of Danish of which you/they were out the
fortifications, employed in to complete the complete one, or it camped in
the district, was amazed and butchered; or, at least,
enormous numbers of them were killed, and the rest withdrew him among the
jobs--all exasperated to their defeat, and burning with desire for
revenge.
The Saxons is not strong enough to dispossess them of them
steadiness. On the contrary one, in some days, Danish, having matured
their plans, made a desperate sally against the Saxons, and, after a
very definite and obstinate conflict, they earned the victory, and
flock the Saxons by the earth. Some of the head of a tribe Saxon and principal
you/he/she was killed, and the whole country was thrown in the great alarm to
the danger that was impending, that Danish would earn soon the
complete and uncontested possession of the whole earth.
The Saxonses were not prepared however still, to abdicate the struggle.
Them the rallied their strengths, new recruits and you gather they reorganized them
file, and it constituted preparations another struggle. Danish, also,
fresh strength that feels and energy in consequence of their successes,
been formed in order of battle, and, leaving their strong-taking,
they marched out in the open country in search of their enemy. The
two armies gradually drew near each other and prepared for battle.
Every thing foretold a terrible conflict that had to be in fact,
the great ending struggle.
The place where the armies met you/he/she had called in those it calculates AEscesdune,
what it intends Ashdown. It was, in fact, a hill-side covered with ash
trees. The name has been shortened and you/he/she has been softened during the
ten centuries that have intervened since this famous battle, in
Aston; if, indeed, as generally the Aston of the present is supposed