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... troops , until at length , wearied - out with the hopeless struggle , he allowed himself to be signed with the cross in the year 785 , and renounced paganism . . The Danes of Jutland and the Isles . - To these events we owe the first ...
... troops , until at length , wearied - out with the hopeless struggle , he allowed himself to be signed with the cross in the year 785 , and renounced paganism . . The Danes of Jutland and the Isles . - To these events we owe the first ...
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... troops against them , that one would have thought the Northmen must all have been cut to pieces . But instead of that , the Danes were clever enough to persuade the emperor not to strike a blow against them , and to pay them as much as ...
... troops against them , that one would have thought the Northmen must all have been cut to pieces . But instead of that , the Danes were clever enough to persuade the emperor not to strike a blow against them , and to pay them as much as ...
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... troops , but before he could reach their camp , he and all his men and horses found themselves sinking into pits and pools , which the enemy had dug before their tents and then covered over with loose branches and pieces of sod . The ...
... troops , but before he could reach their camp , he and all his men and horses found themselves sinking into pits and pools , which the enemy had dug before their tents and then covered over with loose branches and pieces of sod . The ...
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... German ranks , when King Arnulf , with beat of drum , called together his troops after the fight , to hear the priests chant the Te Deum in honour of their success . I G E 8 DENMARK UNDER KING GORM " DEN 44 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY .
... German ranks , when King Arnulf , with beat of drum , called together his troops after the fight , to hear the priests chant the Te Deum in honour of their success . I G E 8 DENMARK UNDER KING GORM " DEN 44 SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY .
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... troops en- abled to overrun all Slesvig and Jutland , on which Harald was forced to submit , and peace was restored on condition of his leaving the bishops unmolested . The only one of Harald's many sons who outlived him was called ...
... troops en- abled to overrun all Slesvig and Jutland , on which Harald was forced to submit , and peace was restored on condition of his leaving the bishops unmolested . The only one of Harald's many sons who outlived him was called ...
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