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The Story Of Norway

The Story Of Norway

by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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Author
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1848-1895
Title
The Story of Norway
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Steve Read and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
DL: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Europe, Scandinavia
Subject
Norway -- History
Category
Text
eBook-No.
34646
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34646
Release Date
December 14, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Story of Norway
  2. 2.by Hjalmar H. Boyesen — STORY OF NORWAY
  3. 3.HJALMAR H. BOYESEN — PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  6. 6.THE STORY OF NORWAY.
  7. 7.CHAPTER I. — WHO WERE THE NORSEMEN?
  8. 8.CHAPTER II. — THE RELIGION OF THE NORSEMEN.
  9. 9.CHAPTER III. — THE AGE OF THE VIKINGS. THE ORIGIN OF THE VIKING CRUISES.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — HALFDAN THE SWARTHY.
  11. 11.CHAPTER V. — HAROLD THE FAIRHAIRED (860-930).
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — ERIK BLOOD-AXE (930-935).
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — HAAKON THE GOOD (935-961).
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — HAROLD GRAYFELL AND HIS BROTHERS (961-970).
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — EARL HAAKON (970-995).
  16. 16.CHAPTER X. — THE YOUTH OF OLAF TRYGGVESSON.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — OLAF TRYGGVESSON (995-1000).
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — THE EARLS ERIK AND SWEYN HAAKONSSON (1OOO-1015). THE DISCOVERY OF VINLAND.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — OLAF THE SAINT (1016-1030).
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — SWEYN ALFIFASSON (1030-1035).
  21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — MAGNUS THE GOOD (1035-1047).
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — HAROLD SIGURDSSON HARD-RULER (1047-1066).
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — OLAF THE QUIET (KYRRE) (1066-1093) AND MAGNUS HAROLDSSON (1066-1069).
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — MAGNUS BAREFOOT (1093-1103) AND HAAKON MAGNUSSON (1093-1095).
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIX — EYSTEIN (1103-1122), SIGURD THE CRUSADER (1103-1130), AND OLAF MAGNUSSON (1103-1115).
  26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — MAGNUS THE BLIND (1130-1135) AND HAROLD GILLE (1130-1136).
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — THE SONS OF HAROLD GILLE (1137-1161).
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — HAAKON THE BROAD-SHOULDERED, (1161-1162).
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — MAGNUS ERLINGSSON (1162-1184).
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — SVERRE SIGURDSSON (1182-1202).
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — HAAKON SVERRESSON (1202-1204).
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. — GUTTORM SIGURDSSON (1204), AND INGE BAARDSSON (1204-1217).
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. — HAAKON HAAKONSSON THE OLD (1217-1263).
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. — THE STURLUNGS IN ICELAND.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. — MAGNUS LAW-MENDER (1263-1280).
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. — ERIK PRIEST-HATER (1280-1299).
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. — HAAKON LONGLEGS (HAALEGG), 1299-1319.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. — MAGNUS SMEK (1319-1374), HAAKON MAGNUSSON (1355-1380), AND OLAF THE YOUNG (1381-1387).
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. — NORWAY DURING THE KALMAR UNION.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE UNION WITH DENMARK.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. — NORWAY AS A PROVINCE OF DENMARK (1537-1814).
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. — NORWAY RECOVERS HER INDEPENDENCE.
  43. 43.INDEX

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