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... lay encamped , or the strand on which their boats were moored . The northern name for king , konúngr , was made up of the two words , konr , kind or family , and ungr , youth , and in its earliest sense meant simply a young chief of ...
... lay encamped , or the strand on which their boats were moored . The northern name for king , konúngr , was made up of the two words , konr , kind or family , and ungr , youth , and in its earliest sense meant simply a young chief of ...
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... know , the scene is laid at Elsinore , in Sjælland . There is no trace of such a story in connection with any prince of the Eastern Danes . occupied by the eastern or insular Danes of later times 22 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY . Denmark.
... know , the scene is laid at Elsinore , in Sjælland . There is no trace of such a story in connection with any prince of the Eastern Danes . occupied by the eastern or insular Danes of later times 22 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY . Denmark.
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... laid his body together with his most costly arms , and after killing his favourite horse and placing it fully harnessed by his side , they closed the opening and raised a high mound over the whole . This Dan , we are told , was fol ...
... laid his body together with his most costly arms , and after killing his favourite horse and placing it fully harnessed by his side , they closed the opening and raised a high mound over the whole . This Dan , we are told , was fol ...
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... lay moored in the Baltic , gods and men were fabled to have met in a fight as fierce as that described by poets as having been fought before the walls of Troy . The battle of Bravalla seems from the first to have been a very favourite ...
... lay moored in the Baltic , gods and men were fabled to have met in a fight as fierce as that described by poets as having been fought before the walls of Troy . The battle of Bravalla seems from the first to have been a very favourite ...
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... lay heaped in huge piles when that day's fight was done , and as the chariots of the victors passed from the field , the bodies of the slain which fringed the narrow road reached to the axle of the wheels . As usual in great northern ...
... lay heaped in huge piles when that day's fight was done , and as the chariots of the victors passed from the field , the bodies of the slain which fringed the narrow road reached to the axle of the wheels . As usual in great northern ...
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