Early Kings of Norway - Thomas Carlyle - Książki - Independently Published - 9798556026667 - 25 stycznia 2021
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Early Kings of Norway

Thomas Carlyle

Early Kings of Norway

Book Excerpt: ...to the luxuriant beauty that had no equal in his day, brought home his Gyda, and made her the brightest queen in all the north. He had after her, in succession, or perhaps even simultaneously in some cases, at least six other wives; and by Gyda herself one daughter and four sons. Harald was not to be considered a strict-living man, and he had a great deal of trouble, as we shall see, with the tumultuous ambition of his sons; but he managed his government, aided by Jarl Rognwald and others, in a large, quietly potent, and successful manner; and it lasted in this royal form till his death, after sixty years of it. These were the times of Norse colonization; proud Norsemen flying into other lands, to freer scenes, --to Iceland, to the Faroe Islands, which were hitherto quite vacant (tenanted only by some mournful hermit, Irish Christian fakir, or so); still more copiously to the Orkney and Shetland Isles, the Hebrides and other countries where Norse squatters and settlers already were. Sett..

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 25 stycznia 2021
ISBN13 9798556026667
Wydawcy Independently Published
Strony 90
Wymiary 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   131 g
Język English  

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