TAILIEUCHUNG - A STORY OF THE VIKING AGE

The following narrative is not so much a story as a biography. My hero is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just nine centuries ago. The main facts of his adventurous career -- his boyhood of slavery in Esthonia, his life at the court of King Valdemar, his wanderings as a viking, the many battles he fought, his conversion to Christianity in England, and his ultimate return to his native land -- are set forth in the various Icelandic sagas dealing with the period in which he. | OLAF THE GLORIOUS A STORY OF THE VIKING AGE BY ROBERT LEIGHTON CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I THE FINDING OF OLAF CHAPTER II SIGURD ERIKSON. CHAPTER III GERDA S PROPHECY. CHAPTER IV THE SLAYING OF KLERKON. CHAPTER V THE STORY OP THE NORSE KINGS. CHAPTER VI THE TRAINING OF OLAF. CHAPTER VII THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST. CHAPTER VIII THE YOUNG VIKINGS. CHAPTER IX THE VIKINGS OF JOMSBURG. CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF JOMSVIKINGS. CHAPTER XI WEST-OVER-SEA. CHAPTER XII THE BATTLE OF MALDON. CHAPTER XIII THE HERMIT OF THE SCILLYS. CHAPTER XIV THORIR KLAKKA. CHAPTER XV THE EVIL EARL. CHAPTER XVI THE CHRISTENING OF NORWAY. CHAPTER XVII SIGRID THE HAUGHTY. CHAPTER XVIII THE LONG SERPENT . CHAPTER XIX SIGVALDI S TREACHERY. CHAPTER XX CAUGHT IN THE SNARE. CHAPTER XXI THE BATTLE IN SVOLD SOUND. CHAPTER XXII THE DEFENCE OF THE LONG SERPENT PREFACE The following narrative is not so much a story as a biography. My hero is not an imaginary one he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just nine centuries ago. The main facts of his adventurous career -- his boyhood of slavery in Esthonia his life at the court of King Valdemar his wanderings as a viking the many battles he fought his conversion to Christianity in England and his ultimate return to his native land -- are set forth in the various Icelandic sagas dealing with the period in which he lived. I have made free use of these old time records and have added only such probable incidents as were necessary to give a continuous thread of interest to the narrative. These sagas like the epics of Homer were handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth and they were not committed to writing until a long time after Olaf Triggvison s death so that it is not easy to discriminate between the actual facts as they occurred and the mere exaggerated traditions which must surely have been added to the story of his life as it was told by the old saga men at their winter firesides. But in most instances the records .

• Du lịch
• robert leighton
• the glorious
• norway ebook
• norway document
• norway specific study
• norway research
• Charles Black
• Nico Jungman London Adam
• Heaton Cooper
• lands Norway
• Thomas Carlyle
• hakon
• The Midnight Sun
• the Land
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
• Publishers Announcement
• gourmet;s guide
• Energy research and social sience
• Renovating the retrofit process
• Low energy buildings in Norway
• Building energy retrofit
• Public private people partnership
• Alteration in Endometrial
• Endometrial Remodeling
• Implantation Failure
• Endometrial Stem
• Cells and Endometriosis
• Recent Research Trends
• Adolescent psychiatry
• Mental health
• Health care research
• Experiencing multiple restraint episodes
• Children’s Global Assessment Scale
• BMC Veterinary Research
• Influenza A viruses
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza
• Branta leucopsis
• Mareca penelope
• Hybrid perspective on energy transition pathways
• Crucial role
• Multi level perspective
• Low emission society
• Electric ferries
• Accelerated transitions
• Maritime sector
• Climate policy
• Elite energy transitions
• Energy transitions
• Climate change
• Oil and gas