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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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mate ofthose engaged directly in the fisheries isplaced at one hundred and , ^ Immense prod- twenty thousand. The uct of the fish-aggregate of annual profitsis over five millions of dollars. It wasestimated that in 1881 twenty-eightmillion four hundred thousand cod weretaken, this only on the coast of Loffoden, 66 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. while the fisheries along- the Finmarkshores yielded about thirteen millionadditional. In the same year, two mil-lion four hundred and twelve thousandbushels of herring were taken, and themackerel product was estimated at sixmillion one hundred and sixty-five thou-sand fishes. One of the most interestinof and val- country we have to consider only whatmay be called natural growth. We havealready had occasion to remark upon thesmall extent to which the Icelandic peo-ples have been disturbed by foreign in-fluences. With the known laws of hu-man speech, therefore, in our posses-sion, we can reason backward from thepresent condition of Icelandic to the an-
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CHURCH AND HOUSE IN NORWAY. uable of all the elements of nationaland race life is the language Community of . the scandina- of the people. Fromtimes vian languages. . . , , , i immemorial up to theeleventh century a common tongue wasspoken by the peoples of Denmark,vSweden, and Norway. Nor had the lan-guage of Iceland at that time been seri-ously deflected from the common type.It is to the latter tongue that we mustlook to determine what the originalNorse was before it began to expand anddevelop during the Middle Ages. In that cient type which was common to all thevScandinavian countries. With the eleventh century, however,Danish began to take on a form peculiarto itself. It had a develop- Danish the orig- ment midwav between Ger- inaioftheSwed- ■ ish and Nor- man and Norsc. It became wegian tongues. more and more a distinctive speech,until the sixteenth century, when itsforms may be regarded as established.Swedish sympathized with this move-ment, but not in full measure. It grewint

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