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Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Remains of Viking Ship, found at Gokstad,Norway. It is of oak, unpainted; lengthover all, 79 feet 4 inches, from stem to stern;breadth of beam, 16£ feet; perpendiculardepth, 6 feet in the middle, 8J feet at theextremities.
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§14) THE NEW BARBARIAN ATTACK. 15 tains vessel, laughed at winds and floods: The blast, theysang, aids our oars; the hurricane is our servant and drivesus whither we wish to go. 14. The Norse Raids. — Fleets of these Vikings, or sonsof the fiords, sometimes counting hundreds of boats, some-times only two or three, set forth upon the pathway of theswans to plunder Western Europe, as their relatives, theJutes and Saxons, had harassed Britain four hundred yearsearlier. There is a story that Charlemagne, from the coast ofGaul, once saw some Norse ships in the Mediterranean, andshed tears, predicting that after his death his kingdom wouldsuffer unspeakable woes from those new foes. Certainly thegreat Emperor maintained fleets to prevent such pirate attacks ;but in the quarrels of his weak successors the Norsemen foundtheir opportunity. Every part of the Empire felt their raids.They not only plundered the open country, but they sackedcities like Hamburg, Rouen, Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, T

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