...northern frontier of their empire. There is the following passage in the poem of Ferdusi, who wrote, at the end of the tenth, and the beginning of the eleventh, century, the war of Afrasiab and Khosru, or Cyrus. " With them are many Turkish girls, all with their...

...northern frontier of their empire. There is the following passage in the poem of Ferdusi, who wrote, at the end of the tenth, and the beginning of the eleventh, century, the war of Afrasiab and Khosru, or Cyrus. " With them are many Turkish girls, all with their...

...his school proceeded the famous Elfric, one of the most eminent of Saxon theologians, who flourished at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century. Very little is known of this man accurately, except from the prefaces and dedications of his...

...nervous, and pointed, a model of plain and unadorned narrative. Telling of events which took place at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century, and probably not reduced to writing till the reign of our Henry II., the Njala is quite free...

...part he played in the civilization of Eastern Europe, has been compared to Charlemagne. He flourished at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century. Upon his head, at his own request to the Pope, the oil of consecration was first poured by...

...is at least in part legendary. Though Greenland, Helluland, Markland, and Wineland were discovered at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh centuries, the earliest written saga treating with these vovages was written between 1270 and 1300....

...true believers (from Iman, the faith), came more and more into use to designate the Mohammedan Oghuze. At- the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century, these Mohammedan Turks set out for Persia, for the more southerly uplands. The region of Bokhara...

...now. I am not aware that in Scandinavia any efforts were made to correct the year until Christianity, at the end of the tenth .and the beginning of the eleventh century,, brought in the Julian Calendar, as adapted to the Christian era by Dionysius Exiguus, and...

...contemporary marbles in and about the Basilica, carved in the same rude style, prove that Venetian sculptors at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century, were men of little skill, and this is corroborated by the fact that the doge Pietro Orseolo...

...essay. Mr. Slafter gives a brief outline of the four or five expeditions from Iceland to " Vineland " at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh centuries, all of which any well-defined narrative remains, beginning with the voyage of Bjarni about...