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  THE PHENOMENON OF THE LONG NIGHT.--REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE.--THE ECLIPTIC AND THE EQUINOXES.--LENGTH OF THE LONG NIGHT


id: 59531
type: EVENT
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  the "Long Serpent"--Einar Thambaskelfer--Expedition to Vendland--Battle of Svolder--Death of Olaf Trygvason 54 CHAPTER XII THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Erik


id: 44030
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  ''For Danes have their home where the fair beeches grow, By shores where forget-me-nots cluster, And fairest to us


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id: 20549
title: Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian
author: Morris, Charles
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  when he came the two set out with sixty armed men for the court of King around Haakon, men saying that he was like King Harold come back again, his men and went with Egil to the palace of the king, where he asked Erik Erik, the son of Earl Haakon, whom he was eager to avenge, and King Olaf With sixty or seventy ships of war these foes of Norway''s king lay hidden But the great body of King Olaf''s ships had gone on without thought of a King Erik was then on the throne of Sweden, but Birger, the son of a son was king of Norway, his daughter was queen of Sweden, and his driven King Birger from the throne the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway were Thus as the death of King Birger had left the crowns of Sweden and Norway


id: 20107
title: Denmark
author: Thomson, M. Pearson
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  Sunday is a fête-day in Copenhagen, and the Dane feels no obligation to No country uses the bicycle more than Denmark, and Sunday is the day I suppose the Dane best known to English boys and girls is Hans Once upon a time the Danes were in great trouble, for they had no King. When the Danes boarded the ship, they found a little boy lying Denmark, and soon after married the Danish King. Denmark in the modern Dane, by showing him the dance, accompanied by Old-time ways the Dane of The beautiful old costumes of the Danish holiday, and the children dress in the old picturesque Danish costumes; Everything is Danish here, and Denmark is the only small nation in pleasure-work at school, the boys, if they are farmers'' sons, have boy at home half the day for instruction in farm-work, but the other


id: 21253
title: The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents
author: Nordlund, Karl
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  Union only acknowledges the Swedish Foreign Minister of State as the head The Swedish offer being thus refused, the Norwegian Union politics in Norwegian Left Side State-law theory, according to which Norway, as a Consular Service to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs and opinion that the Union necessarily demanded a joint Minister for Foreign passed in the _Swedish_ Cabinet to admit the Norwegian Minister of State Union point of view--to a separate Minister for Foreign affairs. With respect to the Consular Question, the Swedish negotiators declare Union, the question now arose as to whether a Norwegian Minister of Minister for Foreign affairs and the Norwegian Consular Office, and that government was bound by Norwegian Union-political traditions, the Swedish Norwegian Consular administration has to leave it to the Foreign Minister in Joint Swedish and Norwegian Cabinet Council. Norwegian Governments concerning a new arrangement of the Union affairs.


id: 17407
title: A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
author: Whitlocke, Bulstrode
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  said Lord Whitelocke, answerable to such good desires, earnestly _The Lord''s Day._--Whitelocke had two good sermons in his house, at which Grave Eric came to Whitelocke to confer about his treaty, and said to Whitelocke said, the cloth of England was likewise of very great value, The master of the ceremonies came to Whitelocke from the Queen to excuse Whitelocke desired the master to return his thanks to her Majesty Eric answered, that the Queen desired Whitelocke One of the Queen''s lacqueys came to Whitelocke''s house in dinner-time, to not coming to visit Whitelocke, and said that, by the Queen''s command, The master of the ceremonies came to Whitelocke from the Queen, to desire The master of the ceremonies came to Whitelocke, by the Queen''s command, Whitelocke, having received so great a respect from the Prince, did again Whitelocke said he had a great desire to kiss his Majesty''s hand and to


id: 22727
title: The Land of the Long Night
author: Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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  snow, drawn by reindeer instead of horses, and sometimes we shall walk We shall sleep on the snow in bags made of reindeer skins, follow the Wolves the Great Foe of the Lapps.--How the Reindeer are Every day''s travel brought me nearer to "The Land of the Long Night," One day when I was looking at two horses rolling in the snow near a Lapps who wandered with their reindeer over that great snow land--among The next day Pehr said to me, "We are going to kill some reindeer this WOLVES THE GREAT FOE OF THE LAPPS.--HOW THE REINDEER ARE PROTECTED he said: "Now we are going to have a hard time to bring the reindeer of The man got for me a clean reindeer skin which he said had just come out good time--living on fish and reindeer meat, for the Sea Lapps own


id: 1150
title: The Danish History, Books I-IX
author: Saxo, Grammaticus
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  In the case of a great king, Frode, his death is concealed for daughters, the challenging of kings to fight or hand over their Men ride to battle, but fight on foot; occasionally an aged king is "Champions".--Professed fighting men were often kept by kings and issue of a king, to whom a common man is equal by law of marriage! man''s courage tells him loyally to follow a king of such deserts, and to received a great mass of gold from the king, and was ordered to At this time the King of Sweden was Athisl, a man of notable fame and Frode thought it shameful to attack such a handful, but Erik said: a man; remember Frode, and avenge thy father''s death. grip of death he took thought for his sons FRODE and HARALD, and bade After this man his son HARALD came to be king of Denmark; he is


id: 3701
author: Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of
title:
  Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen


id: 1932
title: Early Kings of Norway
author: Carlyle, Thomas
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  proprietors) thought, King Hakon, when thou heldest thy first Thing-day collar round the neck of him, not the like of it in Norway,--King Olaf his Christian proposals; and they did not think King Olaf a higher man brief, after about a year, Thangbrand returned to Norway and king Olaf; onslaughts of King Olaf''s on the idol temples of Hakon--(I think it At the time of Olaf Tryggveson''s death, and indeed long before, King Jarl Hakon accepted the generous terms; went to England and King Knut, populace of Norway to seize King Olaf, and bring him to the great Knut The news from Norway were naturally agitating to King Olaf and, in the St. Olaf is the highest of these Norway Kings, and is the last that much natural son of King Olaf but that made little difference in those times this year King Olaf was slain in Norway by his own people, and was


id: 1894
title: Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
author: Pfeiffer, Ida
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  of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about Below the little town of Raudnitz the hills gave place to mountains, and from Hamburgh; the road lies among beautiful country-houses and large forms a beautiful group of rocks, rising boldly from the sea. great portion of the town, with the surrounding country and the sea; good harbour, distant nine miles from Reikjavik, the capital of Iceland. occurrence of this kind took place in 1627, in which year a great number little time to spare for me, as he intended setting sail for Iceland with The little town of Reikjavik consists of a single broad street, with For a long distance round the town the ground consists of stones, turf, The Icelanders consider this little green valley the finest spot station of my Icelandic journey, the town of Reikjavik. hours in the little royal country-house here, which is built on a retired


id: 10543
title: Norwegian Life An Account of Past and Contemporary Conditions and Progress in Norway and Sweden
author: nan
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  CHAPTER VII GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN In early days Norway consisted of a great number of small states thousand years later the present constitution of Norway was adopted. Like Norway, the most that we know of prehistoric times in Sweden we Norwegians with a view to effecting a union between Norway and Sweden of Norway as a nation entirely independent of Sweden to be represented Sweden, and that King Oscar had ceased to be the ruler of Norway. governed the union of the two countries, and King Oscar declared prince of his house to be chosen as the new king of Norway, and the So long as Norway and Sweden were united under one king, Norway and Sweden under one king brought constant bickerings; a Eric, of Sweden, and Ingeborg, only child of King Haakon, of Norway; different times Sweden has been united with Norway and Denmark under


id: 12481
title: Hero Tales of the Far North
author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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  Stay and fight like a man for your King and your flag!" the King, who wanted to know what the Swedish people thought of went with him everywhere till that day, and came out of the fight cheer, Sweden''s coming king hid under an old bridge, outcast and soon to loot the town, and the King''s men came back with a sudden following years, before the new title of the Danish rulers, "King of time the King''s men came to the rescue. "But all men said that this great hurt befell the King because that God bless the King of Denmark"; for in good or evil days they never bore, and at last one day the King told him that he had no time to strong man, a just king, and a father of his people who still cling The young king earned his spurs in a war with Denmark that came near


id: 34646
title: The Story of Norway
author: Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
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  Norse sea-king Olaf the White, who belonged to the great Yngling race. Harold was only ten years old when his father died, and the kings whom [Footnote A: Olaf was the son of King Harold and Svanhild, a daughter of withered grass, and people said that old King Harold had come back once Earl Haakon and his sons Erik, Sweyn, Sigurd, and Erling at death of his father, Earl Haakon, to avenge, and King Olaf the Swede, bravery of King Olaf''s men, when Earl Erik rowed up alongside the make peace with the king of Norway, and accept his twelve-year-old son, "It came from a good man," he said; "King Olaf gave it to me this that if King Magnus was to cede half the kingdom of Norway to Harold, it his men, King Magnus died (1047), twenty-four years old, after having In the year 1066, Earl Tostig, the brother of the English King Harold


id: 38945
title: Canute the Great, 995 (circa)-1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age
author: Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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  a Norse earl; Canute was the younger son of a Danish king: neither had The next year (994) King Sweyn of Denmark joined the fleet of Olaf and year of Sweyn''s invasion of England, the German King journeyed to Italy evidently Eric''s son and Canute''s nephew, the young Hakon whom King Olaf In that year he returned to England as Danish king; in allegiance to King Canute and the Earl, and to receive their old way to King Olaf''s court to demand the kingdom of Norway for Canute. After Canute''s departure for England the Northern kings had their the early days of Canute as English king. later in the year Canute set sail for England; but with his great Canute, King of all England and Denmark and of the Norwegians and of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, and Norway: Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, and Norway:


id: 38128
author: Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde
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  Dina''s affair.'' She said, ''I think the King does not wish to know.'' o''clock, he said good night and closed the two doors of my prison, the prison governor came in and said to me: ''Now you are to remain in woman told me sundry things, and said that the prison governor had were to take place I said to the woman, ''To-day we shall fast till prison governor; but he answered aloud and said, ''Yes, indeed, taken was said about the matter, and the prison governor came in from time to me not to mention it: so I said one day: ''Does the prison governor out, she said, and she had asked the prison governor to let her go prison-governor came in and said that the woman could go down in the One day he said to the woman, ''What do you think the prison

title:
  Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685


id: 38155
title: Norway
author: Jungman, Beatrix
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  drive right across the country, half the distance off the main road, over our drive, staying for days at the various little stations which At a place called Aune we left the main route, and here the road began [Illustration: COUNTRY-WOMEN SELLING BERRIES ON THE ROAD TO STOREN] small station called Sliper, a terrible drive which by this time will, little low houses are built round the concave land, which is washed by stations, and arrived late on Saturday night at a small place which, [Illustration: A HARDANGER COUNTRY GIRL] woman taking her little child, a girl of three or four years old, to a pleased to be passing his days on this little lake steamer, going books on Norway, and in very many Norwegian houses. [Illustration: COUNTRY GIRL, BERGEN DISTRICT] a man who drove us for days along the road across Norway between Odde [Illustration: A LITTLE SÆTERSDALEN PEASANT GIRL]


id: 51369
author: Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry)
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  KING CHRISTIAN VII.''S NOTE TO QUEEN MATILDA INFORMING KING FREDERICK VI.), SON OF QUEEN MATILDA " " 324 out from Copenhagen to seize the King and Queen, loot the palace, At the first sound of alarm the King and Queen, Struensee, After breakfast Struensee and the Queen took the King command Keith to deliver it to the Queen through Struensee''s hands, It was decided to seize Queen Matilda, Struensee, Brandt Christiansborg Palace, showing the King''s apartments, the Queen''s, and The King and Queen, with Struensee, Brandt, and all their court, [Illustration: KING CHRISTIAN VII.''S NOTE TO QUEEN MATILDA INFORMING into the arms of the Queen-Dowager, and Struensee and Brandt were in the Christiansborg Palace before the King, the Queen-Dowager, Prince they _thought_ that Struensee was a long time with the Queen, because [Illustration: THE CASTLE OF CELLE: THE APARTMENTS OF QUEEN MATILDA sent a letter to the King notifying the death of Queen Matilda.

title:
  A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland


id: 51368
author: Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry)
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  Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, Princess of Great [Illustration: FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, FATHER OF QUEEN MATILDA. Queen Matilda gave birth to a son and heir--the future King Frederick Queen, and the King make himself, to the great peril of the state, the The following day he went to Queen''s House to say farewell to the King Queen Matilda had spent the greater part of the time since the King Struensee now accompanied the King and Queen wherever they went, and, Struensee, who was now sure of his position with the King and Queen, Therefore, when the King and Queen arrived at Traventhal, Struensee Struensee, prayed the King and Queen to honour him with a visit to his Struensee might have an eye on him, the King and Queen were surrounded From Copenhagen the King and Queen went to Hirschholm, the country When there was no hunting, the King, the Queen, Struensee

title:
  A Queen of Tears, vol. 1 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland


id: 45862
title: Through Arctic Lapland
author: Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
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  Norwegians, and Finns, and Russians, and Lapps on the coaster, come from Fishers we passed on the way, Russians with long hair and Tartar faces, A little farther on we came across a big shingle-roofed house with bleak snows of the fjeld come in the reindeer sledges of Lapps who hold The interior of Lapland lay beyond--a place of great lakes and rivers, The Finns, being brought up in a country full of rivers and water-ways, water, she was small also on land; and many hands made light work; and saw from there as a small straggling village of new log-houses set down them; so that when the mountain Lapp comes out of the forest like a accompanying us, and we came upon the river some half mile away from walk; and as the mosquitoes came out for the first time that day in full


id: 46772
title: Across Iceland
author: Bisiker, W. (William)
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  and snow slopes, lava flows and hot springs, mighty rivers and tiny ice-fields or lava flows, or when ascending snow slopes, for we should near to the water''s edge did the mountains seem; but we saw many farms number of fairly long jumps over the mountain streams on the way, but, known as Fremrikot near the head of the valley of the Northrá river got away a quarter of an hour after mid-day--and pursued our way each day has its flood of snow water which scours the bed of the river, accumulations of river deposits, till we reached Gilhagi farm-house, north and came in sight of a fine sheet of water about ten miles long. Hvitá valley a long range of mountains stretches from near the sea far way through the lava, which it crosses from one side of the valley to ponies to take us to a very fine lava-field a few miles to the north,


id: 59531
title: Norway
author: Sörensen, Sigvart
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  Bergen--King Haakon Married--Death of Bishop Nicholas and Sigurd country without resistance, and King Harald installed Haakon as earl North More, King Olaf, after a year''s absence, returned to Throndhjem. avoid her brother, went to Norway, where she met King Olaf. messengers to his brother-in-law, King Olaf the Swede, and to Earl One day, when Olaf was ten years old, King Sigurd wanted to ride out, fulfilled, for Harald, Sigurd''s son, in time became king of Norway. King Olaf returned overland through Sweden to Norway. King Olaf''s men who fled from the country. When King Svein had been three years in Norway, a young man, who called When Harald Gille had been six years king of Norway, Sigurd Slembe came King Magnus was twenty-eight years old at the time of his death, having Haakon''s son Magnus now became king of Norway. In the year 1506 King Hans sent his son Christian to Norway to rule the


id: 53106
title: The Vikings
author: Mawer, A. (Allen)
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  The term ''Viking'' is derived from the Old Norse _vík_, a bay, and The period of Scandinavian history to which the term Viking is applied after year, from some time before 819, Vikings harried the island of The great development of Viking activity which took place after 855 Norsemen who attacked England in the days of king Ethelred. of the country placing the district once settled by Danes and Norsemen was one of the chief leaders in the great Danish invasion of England in against the Vikings in Munster and for a time had the Norse kingdom of Viking battles which find record in Scandinavian saga, and in the story THE VIKINGS IN THE ORKNEYS, SCOTLAND, THE WESTERN ISLANDS AND MAN When the Vikings sailed to England and Ireland in the late 8th and common as to go ''west-viking'' and Scandinavian settlements were founded period of Viking rule dates the origin of the chief Irish towns.


id: 36412
title: Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning
author: Egan, Maurice Francis
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  The retention of Danish Slesvig created the German sea power and the word, the German influence, under the eyes of a Danish king and In Denmark the thoughtful citizen often said, ''We are doomed; Germany Germany said, surrounded by people who echoed his opinions, or who, ''Denmark will not become part of Germany in the Kaiser''s time--"Uncle the German nation towards the world could change unless the Social country, the German love for family life, and, for me personally, the GLIMPSES OF THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES were American people of leisure who had lived long in Germany with wanted to know the German Social Democrat''s opinion of government. ''It is,'' said the German, ''that Hohenzollerns shall go, and people had better be governed by Germany than England,'' said the followers At any rate, he said that Denmark gave no concessions to German


id: 44030
title: Our Little Danish Cousin
author: Ennis, Luna May
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  yellow-bearded, Viking-like, Uncle Thor''s neck, so he lifted the little ''Yes, little Valdemar Ingemann, I am the King. "We will have great times, if only Cousin Karl can come up for the Can''t we start right away?" said the little American, for Karl "Yes," agreed Karl''s father, who had once lived in Denmark long years "My dear little Valdemar," said Uncle Thor with much tenderness in his as Valdemar and little Karen courtesied to their mother and uncles, "My son," said Karl''s father, reprovingly, "I like these beautiful old "Come, Karl," called Valdemar, "and see my beautiful Della Robbia "Now we''re off!" said Uncle Thor, as Valdemar finished a very good currant bun on New Year''s Day, or a nice little American boy like and great-grandchildren of good old King Christian IX, of Denmark, "Now I''m coming to the ''king in a bag'' story, Karl," said Valdemar. my own mother!" said little Karl, rather wistfully.


id: 42079
title: Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
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  "COME, Mari, my little daughter, and you shall help me make the cakes," "Good, good," said her mother, "you will soon be a real helper, Mari. The living-room, where Mari had been working, was large and high. in the corner of the living-room, where Mari''s mother worked all day, "What a fine junket this is to-day," said Mari''s father, as his wife But before he rose from the table little Mari said: Every one says he is a fine little fellow," said Mari, one Ole looked fine, too, in a suit much like his father''s and a little "Do look at the dear baby, Ole," said Mari. "MARI, Ole, come here to me at once," called their mother. "I wish I had lived in the time of the Vikings," said Ole. "Tell us some of the good old stories we love so much," said Mari. But little Mari, who loved her father very tenderly, kept thinking


id: 42132
title: Through Scandinavia to Moscow
author: Edwards, William Seymour
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  New York to Copenhagen; those who find terror in the sea enter by way men, big women, rosy and well set up, usually yellow-haired and of dark blue water about two miles wide and thirty or forty long, with The Russian Czar wants our harbors, our great _fjords_, as havens for winter time, and fresh spring water was piped to a little trough set days, setting before us a big pitcher of milk and little little lake, the Opheims Vand, two or three miles long and wide, day yet come when the harnessed water powers of Norway may run the towers of the cathedrals and churches of the city of St. Petersburg--then we saw a tangle of tall chimneys, then ships and Naturally, an American has great sympathy for the Russian people five feet, the cars are long, and half as big and wide again as are The street-life of this most Russian city, the coming


