The Story of the Nations: The Normans

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By Sarah Orne Jewett. First written in 1886, available now in this authentic reproduction, with all illustrations. Topics: the Sea Kings and Vikings, Viking voyages, settlements, Northmen in France, Rolf the Ganger, Harold Harrfager, Jarl Ragnvald, Charles the Simple, Christians, Hastings, Bayeux, William Longsword, Charlemagne’s reign, Charles the Fat, the Cloister, Richard the Fearless, Normandy against France, and much, much, more.

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By Sarah Orne Jewett. First written in 1886, available now in this authentic reproduction, with all illustrations. Topics: the Sea Kings and Vikings, Viking voyages, settlements, Northmen in France, Rolf the Ganger, Harold Harrfager, Jarl Ragnvald, Charles the Simple, Christians, Hastings, Bayeux, William Longsword, Charlemagne’s reign, Charles the Fat, the Cloister, Richard the Fearless, Normandy against France, Hugh Capet, Richard the Good, Robert of France, Danes in England, Robert the Magnificent, Baldwin of Flanders, pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Normans in Italy, Sicily, Pope Leo X, Robert Guiscard, William the Conqueror, William de Talvas, Aethelred, the Danegeld, Knut, Edmund Ironside, Godwin, Edward the Confessor, the Dover Quarrel, Normans in England, castles, the Battle of Val-Es-Dunes, Guy of Burgundy, Hasting the Pirate, the Abbey of Beck, cathedrals, Benedictines, Matilda, the French invasion, King Harold, the Norman plan, Tostig, Harold Hardrada, Stamford, Hastings, Queen Matilda, laws against slavery, Odo’s plot, William Rufus, Robert of Normandy, Henry Beuclerc and hundreds of other important tidbits.

Softcover, 373 pages