Stories of the Norsemen

Kidder Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) 1815-1891 Comp

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RESEARCH LIBRARIESNYPL 93433 082358233 /\M RAGNAR LODBROK AND THE SERPENT. See 19page STORIES OP THE NORSEMEN. .KEVISED BY DANIEL P. KIDDER. PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1851. ecu PREFACE. IT is in totheintended, following* pages, pre- from thatsent a series of takenlife-pictures, eventful of time in which the Nor- portion were so bothconnected,people closelywegian with Great Brit-invasion and colonization,by ain and Ireland. This of interna- period tionalcommunication aboutthe middlebegan of the ninth when the northerncentury, pi- were thenasrates, termed,)(orVikings, they a thenorth-easternmade descenthaving upon of undercoast Lodbrok,England Ragnar established themselves in Northumbria, thus became a Danish trib-which kingdom, often in to thename,only Angio-utary, It be well to that in ourobserve, Anglo-Saxonmay whom wasall the northernhistory, people by England invaded and were classed under the commonoverrun, " Danes."ofappellation 6 PREFACE. Saxon This be said tokings. period may have terminated in when the renowned1066, Harald of landedHardrade, King Norway, in Yorkshire as the and ofally supporter and was slain the Saxon Tostig, by King- Harold he a few later, ; who, only days in battle with William the Con-perished Harald Hardrade's death thusqueror; being one awho,virtually avenged by although Frenchman was from thebirth,by sprung old race himself.

Sujets

• Folklore

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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RESEARCH LIBRARIESNYPL
93433 082358233/\MRAGNAR LODBROK AND THE SERPENT.
See 19pageSTORIES
OP
THE NORSEMEN.
.KEVISED BY DANIEL P. KIDDER.
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS,
200 MULBERRY-STREET.
1851.
ecu