The different tribes of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles went over to England at intervals, and each tribe established a different dominion in its own. By the end of the sixth century at least seven kings ruled the different parts of the country, and began to struggle for supremacy. Two centuries later Wessex became the dominant power in the island. The greatest of the kings of Wessex was Alfred (871-901), who saved England from a terrible danger.
[...] From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer The different tribes of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles went over to England at intervals, and each tribe established a different dominion in its own. By the end of the sixth century at least seven kings ruled the different parts of the country, and began to struggle for supremacy. Two centuries later Wessex became the dominant power in the island. The greatest of the kings of Wessex was Alfred (871-901), who saved England from a terrible danger. [...]
[...] ( ) It is possible that it went to Padua to see Petrarch, as he states in his ‘Clerk's Tale', but if we take it for granted that Chaucer did not stop in Italy so long as it was at first thought, the suggestion of this meeting in Padua with Petrarch is, as a matter of fact, rendered more difficult of credence, although even in six months he may have found plenty of time to make the journey [ The name of Chaucer is indissolubly lied to Canterbury Tales”, were each tale is preceded by a prologue, in which some pilgrims tells something about him. [...]
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