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| | Medieval Sourcebook: William of Malmesbury: Chronicle of the Kings of England |
 | | They were great-grandsons of the celebrated Woden, from whome almost all the royal families of these barbarous nations deduce their origin; and to whome the nations of the Angles, fondly deifying him, have consecrated by immemorial superstition the fourth day of the week, as they have the sixth to his wife Frea. |
 | | Attacking Ethelbert king of Kent, who was a man in other respects laudable, but at that time was endeavoring from the consciousness of his family's dignity to gain the ascendency, and, on this account, making too eager incursions on the territories of his neighbor, he routed his troops and forced him to retreat. |
 | | The kings, however, escaped and were, not long after, enlightened with the heavenly doctirve, by the means of St. Birinus the bishop, in the twenty-fifth year of their reign, and the fortieth after the coming of the blessed Augustine, the apostle of the Angles. |
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