Harald took the sword, drew it, or was half drawing it, admiringly from the scabbard, when the English excellency broke into a scornful laugh, "Ha, ha; thou art now the feudatory of my English king; thou hast accepted the sword from him, and art now his man!" (acceptance of a sword in that manner being the symbol of investiture in those days.) Harald looked a trifle flurried, it is probable; but held in his wrath, and did no damage to the tricksy Englishman.
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Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls,-essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but,-in spite of "Fylke Things" (Folk Things, little parish parliaments), and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves,-often reduced to the unhappy state of quarrel with them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olaf Tryggveson, Hakon Jarl, King Harald, King Svein, Jarl Eric, Gold Harald, King Knut, Long Serpent, Hakon the Good, Jarl Ulf, King Blue-tooth, Magnus Barefoot, Harald Haarfagr, King of Denmark, Queen Sigrid, Svein Estrithson, Jarl Hakon, Knut the Great, Sigrid the Proud, Uncle Harald, Eric Blood-axe, Jarl Sigurd, King Sigurd, Saint Olaf, Bjorn the Chapman New!
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Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls,-essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but,-in spite of "Fylke Things" (Folk Things, little parish parliaments), and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves,-often reduced to the unhappy state of quarrel with them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Olaf Tryggveson, Hakon Jarl, King Harald, King Svein, Jarl Eric, Gold Harald, King Knut, Long Serpent, Hakon the Good, Jarl Ulf, King Blue-tooth, Magnus Barefoot, Harald Haarfagr, King of Denmark, Queen Sigrid, Svein Estrithson, Jarl Hakon, Knut the Great, Sigrid the Proud, Uncle Harald, Eric Blood-axe, Jarl Sigurd, King Sigurd, Saint Olaf, Bjorn the Chapman New!
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- Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle in Front Matter
- Chronological Outlines of English Literature by Frederick Ryaland on page 228, and page 256
- Heimskringla or the Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorre Sturlason in Front Matter, and page 188
- Great Men and Famous Women, Part 7: Artists and Authors by Charles F. Horne on page 156
- Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Carlyle in Front Matter
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