The History of Normandy and of England (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1851. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... booty safely transported to Scandinavia and the 840--877 Baltic islands. Many a tumulus, many a mound ] I' under the cold sky, when opened by the groping 860 antiquary or the honest boor, still presents the happy excavator with the golden denars which the Vikingar had hoarded at home. Blazing hostility again in the North.--Frieze- ssoland, close and nigh to the Jutland shores, WaS DEGREESedition-- a favourite and successful field of enterprize. granted to a . him as a Roric, the nephew of Harold, occupied the coun- bene6ce. try: Lothair endeavoured to expel the Dane, but he had not the power of prosecuting any effectual warfare. His untrustworthy forces were employed either in watching or opposing his own brothers. The Emperor therefore attempted the perilous compromise previously tried with Harold. Rustringia was granted to Count Roric, as a benefice; and the Imperial Diet confirmed the donation. Roric, --a Count, a Markgrave, --performed homage, placed his hands between the hands of Lothair, and covenanted to protect the Empire against his unbeneficed countrymen and kinsmen.--The transaction was acutely planned: an instinctive antipathy subsists between those who have and those who have not, which, as the world goes, often withstands the sympathies of affinity or consanguinity. Lothair calculated that he might thus rely upon estranging Roric from the Danish people; and another precedent was afforded for Rollo's future establishment in Normandy. 840--877 14. Circumstances continued to promote XlXIZ DEGREES this system of infeudation. Concurrently with 850 Roric's expedition, Godfrey the son of Harold 850 Godfrey king of Denmark, the Atheling who with his the son of . Harold parents had been baptized at Mayence, sailed up enters the 1, . ... seine. the Seine, ...