Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n America. nel. Hence the Danes in Northumbriaand East Anglia as conquerors. But theNorsemen proper, they who took to seafrom the western coasts of Norway,would drift directly to the Shetlandislands and to the Orkne3\s, and thencealong the shores of vScotland. Geog-raphy will also explain how the Nor-mans would fall by a natural course intoNeustria, and how thev would in the THE NORSE.—NORWEGIANS. 55 lapse of a century or two become en-tangled in political and historical alli-ances with the English people. Thewhole process may be thus viewedfrom a higher hill. The course of man-kind in its general development, as dis-tinguished from its local eddies andwhorls along the shore, can be seen as a freedom as the mood of the movement.It was in this manner that the coasts ofEngland and France were at first devas-tated. It was a robbery. The personalproperty, cattle, and flocks were carriedaway by the Danish visitants, whowould have taken the earth if theycould have put it into their boats.
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NORWEGIANS OF HITTERDAL—TYPES AND MANNERS.—Drawn by Pelcoq, after a painting of Tiedeman. general movement, tending to generalresults. If we scan critically the nature of theNorse movements out of their owncountries, we should find that at bottomBooty the mo- and for a long time afteraJ^entrS the beginning of the expe-ninth century. ditions they werc simplyplundering adventurers of small com-panies, having booty as the motive and But these excursions of the North-men did not throw much light upon thecondition of affairs at home. It vrasnear the end of the ninth century be-fore the internal condition of Norwaywas much known by the „ . , ^ Social condition other peoples of Europe, of Norwegians;, , ^ , ,1 . • the land system. At our first authentic ac-quaintance with the people the land-ownership was after the manner of the 56 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. English shire. It was divided up intofylkis, a word on the same root with theEnglish folks. Doubtless the fylki wasa district, or

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