hearthsteads

Updated: May 19, 2025

It has had its martyrs, the venerable old town! Ah! there is good blood in that old city, and in the whole circumjacent region of which it is the capital. The Angles possessed the land at an early period, which, however, they were eventually compelled to share with hordes of Danes and Northmen, who flocked thither across the sea to found hearthsteads on its fertile soil.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

It has had its martyrs, the venerable old town! Ah! there is good blood in that old city, and in the whole circumjacent region of which it is the capital. The Angles possessed the land at an early period, which, however, they were eventually compelled to share with hordes of Danes and Northmen, who flocked thither across the sea to found hearthsteads on its fertile soil.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

It has had its martyrs, the venerable old town! Ah! there is good blood in that old city, and in the whole circumjacent region of which it is the capital. The Angles possessed the land at an early period, which, however, they were eventually compelled to share with hordes of Danes and Northmen, who flocked thither across the sea to found hearthsteads on its fertile soil.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest