The Northmen In Britain
by Eleanor Hull
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hull, Eleanor, 1860-1935
- Title
- The Northmen in Britain
- Original Publication
- United States: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,1913.
- Credits
- MWS, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Great Britain -- History -- To 1066
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69131
- Release Date
- October 11, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE NORTHMEN IN BRITAIN
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.Foreword
- 7.Contents
- 8.Illustrations
- 9.Authorities
- 10.The Northmen in Britain — THE AGE OF THE VIKINGS — Chapter I The First Coming of the Northmen
- 11.Chapter II The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrog, or “Hairy-breeks”
- 12.Chapter III The Call for Help
- 13.Chapter IV Alfred the Great (BORN 849; REIGNED 871–901)
- 14.Chapter V Harald Fairhair, First King of Norway, and the Settlements in the Orkneys
- 15.Chapter VI The Northmen in Ireland
- 16.Chapter VII The Expansion of England
- 17.Chapter VIII King Athelstan the Great (925–940)
- 18.Chapter IX The Battle of Brunanburh
- 19.Chapter X Two Great Kings trick each other
- 20.Chapter XI King Hakon the Good
- 21.Chapter XII King Hakon forces his People to become Christians
- 22.Chapter XIII The Saga of Olaf Trygveson
- 23.Chapter XIV King Olaf’s Dragon-ships
- 24.Chapter XV Wild Tales from the Orkneys
- 25.Chapter XVI Murtough of the Leather Cloaks
- 26.Chapter XVII The Story of Olaf the Peacock ( From Laxdæla Saga )
- 27.Chapter XVIII The Battle of Clontarf
- 28.Chapter XIX Yule in the Orkneys, 1014
- 29.Chapter XX The Story of the Burning ( Nial’s Saga )
- 30.Chapter XXI Things draw on to an End
- 31.THE DANISH KINGDOM OF ENGLAND (1013–1042)
- 32.Chapter XXII The Reign of Sweyn Forkbeard
- 33.Chapter XXIII The Battle of London Bridge “London Bridge is broken down”
- 34.Chapter XXIV Canute the Great (1017–1035)
- 35.Chapter XXV Canute lays Claim to Norway
- 36.Chapter XXVI Hardacanute
- 37.Chapter XXVII Edward the Confessor (1042–1066)
- 38.Chapter XXVIII King Harold, Godwin’s Son, and the Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
- 39.Chapter XXIX King Magnus Barelegs falls in Ireland
- 40.Chapter XXX The Last of the Vikings
- 41.Chronology
- 42.FOOTNOTES
- 43.Index
- 44.Transcriber’s Notes
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