 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 sider
...the English and Danish tongue. With their broad and double edged battle axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians. . . <J " In-the tenth century, the geography of Scythia was extended far beyond the limits of ancient... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 368 sider
...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 - 1805 - 512 sider
...ofthe Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...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 - 1811 - 406 sider
...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...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 sider
...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 - 1839 - 480 sider
...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...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 - 1839 - 486 sider
...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 - 1844 - 280 sider
...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and doubleedged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...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 sider
...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor to the temple, the senate,...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 - 1847 - 592 sider
...body-guard chiefly, if not wholly, composed of Scandinavian adventurers, at first of Russian Varseger, and, at a later period, of Danes, Norwegians and Icelanders....Olga, who was distinguished for what we are sorry to iny appear to have been the two principal traits of the old Scandinavian character — craft and cruelty... | |
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Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last age of the empire, the 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 the Greek emperor to... 
