...and a far greater portion of its effective terrors ; and thus they were summoned to take the lield. This body of Varangians (which term is, according...were called, have obscured the remembrance of other nortiiern champions, who, long before the time of Comnenus, made excursions as far as Constantinople,...

...desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue...from the banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horns, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised either sport or settlement. The...

...parallel in the history of human nature, drove forth upon the pathless ocean. 'Piracy,' says (Jibbon, with his usual spirit, 'was the exercise, the trade,...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised cither spoil or settlement.'* The conquests made in...

...defeat, not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." 1 The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called, have obscured...

...defeat not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement.'* The conquests made in...

...desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue,...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement. The Baltic was the first...

...Nestor ; " and his work is the mine Cram which henceforth the history of the North must be drawn. — G. and narrow limits, they started from the banquet,...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explore! every coast that promised either spoil or settlement The Baltic was the first...

...themselves but little about the light in which they were regarded by the inhabitants of Constan< tinople. Their dress and accoutrements, while within the city,...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement. " 1 The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called, have obscured...

...creative impatience," an outburst of the primal need to act ; like the Norsemen, of whom Gibbon says : " Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or...

...defeat,' not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military...every coast that promised either spoil or settlement." l The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called, have obscured...