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... Hand III . Queen Elizabeth's Suitor CHAPTER XVIII . DENMARK FROM 1559 TO 1648 . I. War between Sweden and Denmark II . The Greatest of the Oldenburg Princes III . Denmark's Decline CHAPTER XIX . SWEDEN BETWEEN 1568 AND 1611 . I. The ...
... Hand III . Queen Elizabeth's Suitor CHAPTER XVIII . DENMARK FROM 1559 TO 1648 . I. War between Sweden and Denmark II . The Greatest of the Oldenburg Princes III . Denmark's Decline CHAPTER XIX . SWEDEN BETWEEN 1568 AND 1611 . I. The ...
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... hands of the men of Oeland without uttering a cry or flinching a step . Rolf Krake , who received his name from the word Kraki , meaning the straight stem of a tree , on account of his slim and graceful figure , was the grandson of the ...
... hands of the men of Oeland without uttering a cry or flinching a step . Rolf Krake , who received his name from the word Kraki , meaning the straight stem of a tree , on account of his slim and graceful figure , was the grandson of the ...
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... hand which guided his chariot so firmly through the ranks of the foe , had implored the god not to forsake his faithful Danes in this hour of their peril , but Odin's reply had been , that he himself had taught the secret of victory to ...
... hand which guided his chariot so firmly through the ranks of the foe , had implored the god not to forsake his faithful Danes in this hour of their peril , but Odin's reply had been , that he himself had taught the secret of victory to ...
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... hands of Ella , King of Northumbria , who , having seized him in the act of invading his country , caused him to be thrown into a pit filled with adders , as he would not declare his name and the cause of his appearance on the North ...
... hands of Ella , King of Northumbria , who , having seized him in the act of invading his country , caused him to be thrown into a pit filled with adders , as he would not declare his name and the cause of his appearance on the North ...
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... hands to gain his living , and never asked the monks placed under him to perform any menial kind of work in which he did not take his share . He and his friend , the monk Autbert , set sail in 827 for Slesvig , and , after undergoing ...
... hands to gain his living , and never asked the monks placed under him to perform any menial kind of work in which he did not take his share . He and his friend , the monk Autbert , set sail in 827 for Slesvig , and , after undergoing ...
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