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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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sealine and outgoings of theinlets of Massachusetts and STeirirstoter-Rhode Island were before ies abroad,them. Here, too, they anchored. Herethe old stone tower at Newport stillbears witness of their presence. Herethe greatest of American poets, in hissong of TJic Skeleton in Armor, hassketched for posterity the adventures inthe valley of Fall River of an Icelander,who is supposed to have been no otherthan one of the Vikines of the eleventh THE NORSE.—NOR JI EG I A NS. 59 century. All this, too, because the prin-cess Gyda said to her lover, I marrythee when thou art King of Norway. The stormy and arbitrary character ofHarald Haarfager ended in the oppres-sion, almost the enslavement, of the Nor-wegian people during his reign. The land-vassalage which had been insti-tuted in Haralds days was given up,and two of the great provinces, Frosta-thing and Gula-thing, were reorganizedwith their old laws and boundaries.Hakon had been brought up as a youthat the Court of AtheLstan, the Saxon
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ARRIVAL OF FIRST NORSE COLONY IN GREENLAND. Nor-way be-comes regularunder Hakon. accession of his son, Hakon I, how-Government of ever, restored in a consid-erable degree the libertiesof the people. The old-time loyalty came back, and Eric, therival of Hakon, Avho had contended withhim for the crown, and had actuallyslain two of the kings brothers, wascompelled to leave the country. Thegovernment which Harald had estab-lished became regular and organic dur-ing the reign of his son. In the North,Jarl vSigurd ruled under the king as hisvassal. Several of Hakons kinsmenwere left as chief noblemen of the king-dom ; but the management of the largerpart the king reserved for himself. The King of Britain, and had there beenconverted to Christianity. After com-ing to the Norwegian throne he at-tempted to introduce his own faithamong his subjects. But the people ofNorway at this time were extreme intheir paganism, and the peace of thekingdom was wellnigh broken up bythe projects of the soverei

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