| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...hippodrome ; he flept and feafted under their trufty guard ; and the keys of the palace, the treafury, and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians (48). In the tenth century, the geography of Scy- Geography ,. , , r V j Pi i- • r and trade of tma... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...loyalty, and the use ofthe Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor...and feasted under their trusty guard; and the keys ofthe palace, the treasury, and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians."... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor...held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians *. In the tenth century, the geography of Scythia Geograwas extended far beyond the limits of ancient... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor...capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians.b In the tenth century, the geography of Scythia Geography was extended far beyond the limits... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. The Greek emperor slept and feasted under their trusty guard; and the...held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians *. In the tenth century the monarchy of the Russians obtains a vast and conspicuous place in the map... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 480 pages
...loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." (lf>) Bore off the holy vessels, crowns of gold, With silver shrines, copes, cups, and gem-wrought... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 486 pages
...Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last aere of the empire, the inheritance of spotless lovaltv. and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." (l6) Bore off the holy vessels, crowns of gold, With silver shrines, copes, cups, and gem-wrought robes,... | |
| P A. Beddome - History - 1844 - 280 pages
...loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and doubleedged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians. 224. Describe the first naval expedition of the Russians against Constantinople. Under the command... | |
| Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1845 - 376 pages
...loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." The expedition of Thiodolf against the Bulgarians is probably imitated from that of John Zimisces against... | |
| Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 598 pages
...body-guard, to use the words of Gibbon, " with their broad and double-edged battle axes on their shoulders, attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." J Our great historian might have added that • The widow of this Czar, Olga, who was distinguished for... | |
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