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THE
NORTHMEN
IN BRITAIN
“There is no man so high-hearted over earth, nor so good in gifts, nor so keen in youth, nor so brave in deeds, nor so loyal to his lord, that he may not have always sad yearning towards the sea-faring, for what the Lord will give him there.
“His heart is not for the harp, nor receiving of rings, nor delight in a wife, nor the joy of the world, nor about anything else but the rolling of the waves. And he hath ever longing who wisheth for the Sea.”
“The Seafarer”
(Old English Poem).
The Coming of the Northmen
THE NORTHMEN
IN BRITAIN
BY
Eleanor Hull
AUTHOR OF
‘THE POEM-BOOK OF THE GAEL’ ‘CUCHULAIN, THE HOUND OF ULSTER’
‘PAGAN IRELAND’ ‘EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND’
ETC.
WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY
M. Meredith Williams
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh