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Still, as these Angles came to stay and have given their name to our country, it may be well to note that they came over to Britain from the one country which is known to have borne the name of Angeln or the Engle-land, and which is now called Sleswick, a district in the middle of that peninsula which parts the Baltic from the North Sea or German Ocean.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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And even in Jutland and Sleswick in Anglia Cymbrica, urns with bones were found not many years before us.
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Arriving at Sleswick, the residence of Prince Charles of
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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After leaving Sleswick, we passed through several pretty towns;
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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Lifland; Slavs, and men from Jom, Aland, and Sleswick.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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Nevertheless, I do contend that when Britain (or, if you prefer it, Sleswick) When Sleswick first at Heavens command
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Lorentz, acting governor of the Danish island of St. Thomas 1689-1692, governor 1694-1702, was of Flensborg in Sleswick, but his habitual language was Dutch, which indeed was the usual language of St. Thomas at this time.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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The American student needs not to go to the "prim little townships of Sleswick" for illustrations of the law of continuity and development.
The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896
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After passing through the island of Zealand, I was ferried across to the island of Fyen, and after that I proceeded along the mainland of Sleswick and Holstein.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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Take England: its aristocracy at different times has consisted of the various barbaric invaders, first the Anglo-Saxon (if I must use that hateful and misleading word) -- a pirate from Sleswick; then the Dane, another pirate from Denmark direct; then the Norman, a yet younger Danish pirate, with a thin veneer of early French culture, who came over from Normandy to better himself after just two generations of Christian apprenticeship.
Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873
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