item: #1 of 16 id: 13752 author: Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts) title: Wulfric the Weapon Thane: A Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia date: None words: 84706 flesch: 89 summary: Know you yon great man? asked Eadmund of me; for I would not leave him, but stood before him in my place. There has come a messenger from Guthrum with the news, and even now the Danes march in all haste from the towns to fill up the gaps in the ranks of the host, and he says that ships must go back to Jutland to Ingvar for more men from overseas. keywords: beorn; boat; danes; eadmund; face; father; friend; good; great; halfden; hand; hubba; ingvar; jarl; king; land; left; lodbrok; man; men; naught; osritha; place; raud; reedham; round; saw; saying; sea; ship; things; thormod; thought; time; way; wulfric cache: 13752.txt plain text: 13752.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 15951 author: Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts) title: A Sea Queen's Sailing date: None words: 79247 flesch: 94 summary: They were good men. It went on, cleaving its way through the press as a ship cleaves its way to windward through the waves, and after it had passed, there was a track of fallen men to tell of how it had fared. keywords: asbiorn; bertric; boat; dalfin; deck; end; father; gerda; good; hakon; half; hand; heidrek; king; man; men; mind; phelim; place; round; sail; saw; sea; set; ship; shore; tell; think; thought; time; water; way; wind cache: 15951.txt plain text: 15951.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 21730 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Erling the Bold date: None words: 100553 flesch: 78 summary: Thy news, old man, is no news, said Ulf; the token for a Thing has been sent out, and it is natural that the bonders should obey the summons. Besides this, to say the truth, we had already lost a number of good men on the cruise and could ill afford to lose more. keywords: ada; alric; art; away; axe; battle; berserk; boy; day; erling; face; father; fell; fight; friend; glumm; good; hake; haldor; hand; harald; head; hermit; hilda; horlingdal; house; kettle; king; king harald; know; land; left; man; men; moment; point; round; sea; ships; small; sword; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; ulf; war; way cache: 21730.txt plain text: 21730.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 23725 author: Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston title: Viking Boys date: None words: 59216 flesch: 83 summary: It certainly _is_ Yaspard, with no jacket on, and a man beside him. Forth against the howling tempest, Forth against each evil power, Wild and reckless, went young Yaspard In a dark unguarded hour. keywords: adiesen; bill; boat; boden; boys; brüs; course; day; fred; garson; gloy; good; hands; harry; head; holtum; home; house; life; lowrie; lunda; man; neeven; osprey; pirate; place; right; room; sea; signy; tammy; thor; thought; time; tom; uncle; viking; water; way; yaspard; young cache: 23725.txt plain text: 23725.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 32686 author: Enferd, Knut title: Day of the Druid date: None words: 5129 flesch: 100 summary: Gaar's big hands were locked about his knees as he rocked back and forth thoughtfully. Would Gaar be able to save Marna, whom Be'al kept in eternal sleep, and avenge her people? keywords: circle; eyes; feet; gaar; man; marna cache: 32686.txt plain text: 32686.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 347 author: Unknown title: The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga date: None words: 71358 flesch: 89 summary: This annoyed Thorfinn, but he did not like to refuse Grettir his hospitality; he was a man who kept open house, enjoyed life and liked to see other men happy. Thorfinn cast a severe glance at him and asked what he had found so pressing to do that he could not keep proper hours like other men. keywords: angle; asmund; atli; brother; chapter; day; death; father; good; grettir; grim; head; home; house; jarl; king; man; men; money; north; onund; place; property; ship; son; south; summer; sword; thing; thorbjorn; thorfinn; thorgeir; thorir; thorsteinn; thought; time; way; winter cache: 347.txt plain text: 347.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 38945 author: Larson, Laurence Marcellus title: Canute the Great, 995 (circa)-1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age date: None words: 92924 flesch: 68 summary: Many magnates or sons of prominent franklins had fared to Canute on various errands; but all who came to King Canute were given their hands full of wealth. But if King Olaf Haroldsson wishes to rule Norway, let him fare to King Canute and receive the land from him as a fief and become his man and pay such tribute as the earls had earlier paid.[294] Such a proposal was an insult to the Norse nation, and it is not likely that Canute expected a favourable reply. keywords: age; anglo; battle; bishop; brother; canute; century; chief; christian; chronicle; church; city; conquest; court; danes; danish; day; death; denmark; doubt; doubtless; earl; edmund; england; english; eric; ethelred; fleet; forces; gesta; good; great; hakon; harold; history; host; king; king canute; king olaf; kingdom; lands; life; little; london; men; new; norman; norse; north; northern; norway; norwegian; olaf; peace; reign; river; royal; saga; saint; saint olaf; saxon; scandinavian; ships; snorre; son; sons; south; stone; sweyn; thurkil; time; viking; william; years cache: 38945.txt plain text: 38945.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 40513 author: Edgar, John G. (John George) title: Danes, Saxons and Normans; or, Stories of our ancestors date: None words: 76757 flesch: 62 summary: Not inclined to try conclusions with an antagonist so formidable, Malcolm presented himself to the Conqueror at a place near the frontier, which is supposed to have been Berwick; and, though declining to surrender the Saxon emigrants, met King William in a peaceful attitude, touched his hand in sign of friendship, promised that William's enemies should be his also, and freely acknowledged himself his vassal and liegeman. Lanfranc wrote joyfully to King William, your kingdom is freed from the filthy Bretons. keywords: aid; army; atheling; battle; beauclerc; bishop; brother; camp; castle; chapter; church; conqueror; country; court; crown; curthose; day; death; duke; duke william; earl; edward; england; english; godwin; great; hand; harold; head; henry; hereward; high; illustration; king; lanfranc; london; long; malcolm; matilda; men; norman; normandy; northumberland; odo; place; robert; rouen; rufus; saxon; siward; son; throne; time; tostig; way; william; york cache: 40513.txt plain text: 40513.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 43381 author: French, Allen title: The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow date: None words: 60508 flesch: 93 summary: Said Rolf: What is done by a man's servants, with his knowledge, is as his deed. Said Rolf: Bring me that fellow here! keywords: asdis; bow; cragness; day; earl; einar; father; frodi; grani; grettir; hall; hiarandi; home; house; kiartan; man; men; ondott; place; rolf; saw; set; ship; snorri; son; sword; thee; thou; thy; time; way cache: 43381.txt plain text: 43381.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 43910 author: Partington, S. W. title: The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire date: None words: 48129 flesch: 74 summary: From the year 880 when Halfdene divided the lands of Deira among his followers the conditions of life became those of colonists, and the Danes settled down to cultivate their own lands, learning the language of the earlier Angles, teaching them many words, and ways of northern handicraft, and gradually intermarrying and forming the vigorous character of body and mind which denotes the modern Englishman. From the middle of the tenth century men bearing Anglo-Danish names held high positions in the Church; Odo was Archbishop of Canterbury, his nephew Oswald was Bishop of Worcester and afterwards Archbishop of York in succession to Oskytel, and many Norse names appear as witnesses to Royal Charters. In the manors bearing English names the sokemen numbered two-fifths of the population, while in those manors with Danish names they formed three-fifths of the population. keywords: a.d; anglo; art; century; coins; conquest; country; cross; crosses; cumberland; danes; danish; day; days; death; districts; england; english; fact; find; form; god; good; great; half; hill; history; house; illustration; influence; john; king; lancashire; lord; man; means; men; modern; names; near; norman; norse; north; number; odin; origin; page; people; period; place; present; right; runes; runic; saxon; scandinavian; settlements; stone; tenants; tenure; time; way; west; wheat; word; work; year; yorkshire cache: 43910.txt plain text: 43910.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 4581 author: Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) title: The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days date: None words: 85137 flesch: 88 summary: But when at last Alwin raised his eyes to hers, their gaze reassured her. Yonder he is,--that lean little man with the freckled face. keywords: alwin; bear; black; blood; chapter; chief; day; egil; eric; eyes; face; father; feet; fell; friend; gilli; good; greenland; hair; hand; head; helga; kark; king; left; leif; like; look; maiden; man; men; mind; moment; night; norman; place; red; rolf; rose; ship; sigurd; son; sword; tell; thought; thrall; time; tyrker; valbrand; voice; way; white; wish; words cache: 4581.txt plain text: 4581.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 47515 author: Stoddard, William O. title: Ulric the Jarl: A Story of the Penitent Thief date: None words: 131972 flesch: 93 summary: There were many men in the room. I have seen many men slain upon stones. keywords: abbas; bear; ben; ben ezra; caius; city; day; eyes; ezra; face; fire; gods; good; great; hand; hath; head; hilda; house; ice; jarl; jew; knud; land; like; little; lysias; man; men; o jarl; odin; place; pontius; procurator; red; roman; saxons; sea; ship; shore; sigurd; slain; son; spear; sword; thee; think; thou; thou art; thought; thy; tostig; trireme; ulric; vikings; wilt; wulf cache: 47515.txt plain text: 47515.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 5120 author: Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer) title: Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell date: None words: 43102 flesch: 90 summary: The path was very narrow at that point, and he of the black beard called out gruffly,-- Make way, old man! Ay, I had forgotten, we are both old men now. keywords: atli; day; door; estein; eyes; face; father; gods; hall; hand; helgi; ketill; king; king estein; left; liot; man; men; mind; night; osla; round; sea; ship; thee; thought; time; viking; voice; way cache: 5120.txt plain text: 5120.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 53106 author: Mawer, A. (Allen) title: The Vikings date: None words: 36164 flesch: 67 summary: Ford_ in Strangford and Carlingford Loughs, Waterford and Wexford is O.N. _fjorðr_, a fjord, -_low_ in Arklow and Wicklow is O.N. _ló_, 'low-lying, flat-grassland, lying by the water's edge.' The O.N. _ey_, an island, is found in Lambey, Dalkey, Dursey Head, Ireland's Eye (for Ireland's Ey), Howth is O.N. _höfuð_, 'a head,' Carnsore and Greenore Point contain O.N. _eyrr_, 'a sandy point pushing out into the sea.' keywords: attacks; century; chief; coast; danes; danish; death; denmark; district; dublin; east; england; english; fleet; harold; history; influence; ireland; irish; islands; king; kingdom; life; man; names; norse; norsemen; north; northumbria; norway; o.n; olaf; period; place; rule; scandinavian; sea; settlements; settlers; son; south; term; time; trade; vikings; west; years cache: 53106.txt plain text: 53106.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 62123 author: Gunnarsson, Gunnar title: The Sworn Brothers: A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland date: None words: 94115 flesch: 87 summary: At last Leif made him lie on the piece of timber and taught him the strokes. At last Leif looked up. keywords: atle; brothers; day; days; eyes; face; father; gods; good; haasten; hallveig; hand; head; helga; hjor; holmsten; home; house; ingolf; land; leif; life; look; man; matter; men; mind; orn; place; quiet; round; sea; ships; sons; summer; thought; time; voice; way; winter; wood cache: 62123.txt plain text: 62123.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 9415 author: Leighton, Robert title: Olaf the Glorious: A Story of the Viking Age date: None words: 90033 flesch: 83 summary: They had appointed to waylay King Olaf Triggvison in a certain channel running between the mainland and the island of Svold, and Sweyn had now sent this messenger bidding the earl to so bring it about that they might fall upon King Olaf in that place. Go back to your chief, cried Brihtnoth, with an indignant sweep of his arm; go back and tell him that steel, and not gold, is the only metal that can now judge between him and me! It is the metal that King Olaf has ever favoured, returned Guthmund; and right glad will he be to hear that there is at least one man among the English who is brave enough to be of that same opinion. keywords: battle; board; boy; chief; day; death; earl; earl erik; end; england; erik; eyes; father; fight; fleet; gold; good; hakon; hand; head; high; horse; king harald; king olaf; king sweyn; king valdemar; klerkon; kolbiorn; land; little; man; men; norway; people; place; queen; sea; serpent; set; ships; sigurd; sigvaldi; sword; thorgils; thought; time; triggvison; vikings cache: 9415.txt plain text: 9415.txt