Length6h 53m
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Excerpt: "Two great streams of Northern immigration met on the shores of Britain during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. The Norsemen from the deep fiords of Western Norway, fishing and raiding along the coasts, pushed out their adventurous boats into the Atlantic, and in the dawn of Northern history we find them already settled in the Orkney and Shetland Isles, whence they raided and settled southward to Caithness, Fife, and Northumbria on the east, and to the Hebrides, Galloway, and Man on the western coast. Fresh impetus was given to this outward movement by the changes of policy introduced by Harald Fairhair, first king of Norway (872–933). Through him a nobler type of emigrant succeeded the casual wanderer, and great lords and kings' sons came over to consolidate the settlements begun by humbler agencies. Iceland was at the same time peopled by a similar stock. The Dane, contemporaneously with the Norseman, came by a different route. Though he seems to have been the first to invade Northumbria (if Ragnar and his sons were really Danes), his movement was chiefly round the southern shores of England, passing over by way of the Danish and Netherland coast up the English Channel, and round to the west. Both streams met in Ireland, where a sharp and lengthened contest was fought out between the two nations, and where both6 took deep root, building cities and absorbing much of the commerce of the country."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, History
Length6 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Illustrations
2Authorities
3Chapter I The First Coming of the Northmen
4Chapter II The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrog, or “Hairy-breeks”
5Chapter III The Call for Help
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6Chapter IV Alfred the Great (BORN 849; REIGNED 871–901)
7Chapter V Harald Fairhair, First King of Norway, and the Settlements in the Orkneys
8Chapter VI The Northmen in Ireland
9Chapter VII The Expansion of England
10Chapter VIII King Athelstan the Great (925–940)
11Chapter IX The Battle of Brunanburh
12Chapter X Two Great Kings trick each other
13Chapter XI King Hakon the Good
14Chapter XII King Hakon forces his People to become Christians
15Chapter XIII The Saga of Olaf Trygveson
16Chapter XIV King Olaf’s Dragon-ships
17Chapter XV Wild Tales from the Orkneys
18Chapter XVI Murtough of the Leather Cloaks
19Chapter XVII The Story of Olaf the Peacock (From Laxdæla Saga)
20Chapter XVIII The Battle of Clontarf
21Chapter XIX Yule in the Orkneys, 1014
22Chapter XX The Story of the Burning (Nial’s Saga)
23Chapter XXI Things draw on to an End
24THE DANISH KINGDOM OF ENGLAND (1013–1042)
25Chapter XXII The Reign of Sweyn Forkbeard
26Chapter XXIII The Battle of London Bridge “London Bridge is broken down”
27Chapter XXIV Canute the Great (1017–1035)
28Chapter XXV Canute lays Claim to Norway
29Chapter XXVI Hardacanute
30Chapter XXVII Edward the Confessor (1042–1066)
31Chapter XXVIII King Harold, Godwin’s Son, and the Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
32Chapter XXIX King Magnus Barelegs falls in Ireland
33Chapter XXX The Last of the Vikings
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