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... army in the wedge - shaped form which he had learned in early youth from Odin , and which , as he had often proved , always brought vic- tory with it . The dead lay heaped in huge piles when that day's fight was done , and as the ...
... army in the wedge - shaped form which he had learned in early youth from Odin , and which , as he had often proved , always brought vic- tory with it . The dead lay heaped in huge piles when that day's fight was done , and as the ...
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... army which advanced towards Ashloo to destroy their entrenchments . The emperor , Charles the Fat , had brought such an enormous array of Frankish , Bavarian , Swabian and Saxon troops against them , that one would have thought the ...
... army which advanced towards Ashloo to destroy their entrenchments . The emperor , Charles the Fat , had brought such an enormous array of Frankish , Bavarian , Swabian and Saxon troops against them , that one would have thought the ...
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... army to succour them , and the Pope had ordered him and all other Christians to hasten to the relief of the unhappy city . Charles the Fat did not much like meeting the Northmen in the open field , and instead of coming in person he ...
... army to succour them , and the Pope had ordered him and all other Christians to hasten to the relief of the unhappy city . Charles the Fat did not much like meeting the Northmen in the open field , and instead of coming in person he ...
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... army , and made his camp at Montmartre , but he never struck a blow , and instead of fighting he made peace with the Danes , gave them the province of Burgundy to keep for their winter - quarters , and promised that he would pay them in ...
... army , and made his camp at Montmartre , but he never struck a blow , and instead of fighting he made peace with the Danes , gave them the province of Burgundy to keep for their winter - quarters , and promised that he would pay them in ...
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... army , and there made Gorm clearly see that unless he ceased from troubling the Christians , as the emperor com- manded , Slesvig and Jutland would be over - run and taken from him , and the rest of his kingdom , perhaps , also invaded ...
... army , and there made Gorm clearly see that unless he ceased from troubling the Christians , as the emperor com- manded , Slesvig and Jutland would be over - run and taken from him , and the rest of his kingdom , perhaps , also invaded ...
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