Illustrations

The Coming of the Northmen[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Ladgerda[16]
Alfred at Ashdune[26]
Harald Fairhair[42]
Olaf Cuaran[62]
Thorolf slays Earl Hring at Brunanburh[72]
The dying King Hakon carried to his Ship[88]
King Olaf’s “Long Serpent”[102]
Murtough on his Journey with the King of Munster in Fetters[118]
“Olaf took the Old Woman in his Arms”[132]
Death of Brian Boru at Clontarf[152]
“The Vision of the Man on the Grey Horse”[166]
“Come thou out, housewife,” called Flosi to Bergthora[172]
The Battle of London Bridge[188]
King Canute and Earl Ulf quarrel over Chess[214]
King Magnus in the Marsh at Downpatrick[240]
MAP
British Isles in the time of the Northmen[176]