 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...vague appellation of Thule is applied to England ; and the new Varangians were a colony of Englifh and Danes who fled from the yoke of the Norman conqueror....piracy had approximated the countries of the earth ; thefe exiles were entertained in the Byzantine court ; and they preferved, till the lait age of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...occasion, the vague appellation of Thule is applied to England; and the new Varangians were a colony of English and Danes who fled from the yoke of the Norman...empire, the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use ofthe Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...appellation of Thule is applied to England; LV. and the new Varangians were a colony of English '— v ' and Danes who fled from the yoke of the Norman conqueror....inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1813 - 412 pages
...appellation of Thule is applied to England ; and the new Varangians were a colony of Englifli andDaneswho fled from the yoke of the Norman conqueror. The habits...piracy had approximated the countries of the earth ; thefe exiles were entertained in the Byzantine court ; and they preferved, till the laft age of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...occasion the vague appellation of Thule is applied to England; and the new Varangians were a colony of English and Danes, who fled from the yoke of the Norman conqueror. These exiles were entertained in the Byzantine court, and they preserved till the last age of the empire... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 480 pages
...occasion, the vague appellation of Thule is applied to England ; and the new Varangians were a colony of English and Danes, who fled from the yoke of the Norman...inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - Great Britain - 1839 - 486 pages
...occasion, the vague appellation of Thule is applied to England ; and the new Varangians were a colony of English and Danes, who fled from the yoke of the Norman...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,... | |
 | Benjamin (of Tudela) - Jews - 1841 - 476 pages
...imperial guards; these were a colony of english and danes, who fled the yoke of the norman conqueror and 'preserved till the last age of the empire, the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the danish and english tongue.'" Mr. Tafel (1. cp 512.) states that the Alani, the Khazars, the Russians,... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1845 - 376 pages
...of the character of his self-invited guests. He then continues;—" The exiles were entertained at the Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last age of the empire, the inheritance of * The full history of this strange possession, which reminds the reader of the Malay " running a-muck,"... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 592 pages
...Sagabib. ii. 149. :|. Gibbon. Dec. and Fall, eh. 55. When Gibbon further says that the Varangians " preserved till the last age of the empire the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English language," he can only mean the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon, two distinct languages,... | |
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The habits of pilgrimage and piracy had approximated the countries of the earth; these exiles were entertained in the Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last age of the empire, the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish... 
