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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...and Norway, as well as from Zealand and Jutland--the proper Denmark. These were all called Danes in popular language, tor the same reason that the former invaders were called by the one designation of Saxons. All these people were so similar in their habits, customs and religion that it was difficult to distinguish them--probably the Danes and Saxons originally differed more in language than in anything else; but the foundation of both was the Teutonic language. The probability of the difference is this, that when the old Cimbri left the Cimbri Chersonesus, in the time of the Cimbri and Teutons, there was a part of the Cimbri who went north, as well as the others went south, and became mixed up and absorbed with the Teutons of the north, which accounts for the difference between the Dane or Northman and the Teuton of the south. This caused considerable change in the language of the Northman, but their habits, customs and religion continued to be that of the savage Woden. These Northmen, so called Danes, were all addicted like the Saxons before them to a sea-faring life, and to piracy and plundering. The settled and improved part of their country became too populous, and required emigration, and they chose the enterprise and piracy of the sea, rather than the honest pursuits on land. "It is declared," says Turner, "to have been a law or custom in the north, that one of the male children should be selected to remain at home to inherit the government The rest were exiled to the ocean to wield their sceptres amid the turbulent waters. The consent of the northern society entitled all men of royal descent, who assumed piracy as a profession, to enjoy the name oi king, though they possessed no territory. Hence (he sea-kings were the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153233965
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 322
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153233967
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 576 gr


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