The book General History for Colleges And High Schools was written by author Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of General History for Colleges And High Schools book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is General History for Colleges And High Schools a good or bad book?
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503 and 644. CHAPTER XLIII THE NORTHMEN: THE COMING OF THE VIKINGS 536. The Northern Folk — Northmen, Norsemen, Scandina- vians are different names applied in a general way to the early inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. For the reason that those making settlements in England came for the most part from Denmark, the term Danes is often used with the same wide application by the English writers. These people formed the northern branch of the Teutonic family. For the first eight centurie...s of our era the Norsemen are prac- tically hidden from our view in their remote northern home ; but towards the end of the eighth century their black pirat- ical cralts are to be seen creeping along the coasts of Fig. 106. — A Viking Ship It was the custom of the Northmen to bury their dead sea king near the sea in his ship and over the spot to raise a great mound of earth. The boat shown in the cut was found in iSSo in a burial mound at Gokstadt, South Norway. Its length is 78 feet. From the mode of sepulture it is inferred that the ~ mound was raised between a.d.
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