 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 630 sider
...tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperer to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome ; he...capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians.48 In the tenth century, the geography of Scythia was extended far beyond the limits of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 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.48 In the tenth century the geography of Scythia was extended far beyond the limits of ancient... | |
 | Catherine Laura Johnstone - 1860 - 504 sider
...With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperors to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome ; he...held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians ; their strength being 1'ecruited by a numerous band of their countrymen from England and the Scandinavian... | |
 | 1861 - 354 sider
...were so nobly distinguished.* " 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." From this imperfect sketch of Danish life and manners, which in some of its details carries us back... | |
 | La Motte-Fouqué (Friedrich Heinrich Karl) - 1865 - 328 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... | |
 | 1865 - 592 sider
...their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor in Constantinople to the church, the senate and tho hippodrome ; he slept and feasted under their trusty...capital were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Waranghians." To the junction of the Anglo-Saxon refugees and the national characteristics of the Waranghians,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 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.48 In the tenth century, the geography of Scythia was extended far beyond the limits of... | |
 | Foxhall Alexander Parker - 1876 - 312 sider
...shoulders," says Gibbon, " they attended the emperor to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome; and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the capital, were held by their firm and faithful hands." • At the last day the sea rushes over the earth and in this flood... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 480 sider
...two-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor in Constantinople to the church, the senate, and the hippodrome ; he slept and feasted...capital were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Waranghians." It has been said that the costume of these guards was adopted by the palace guards of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 390 sider
...service of the kings of France. " With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...palace, the treasury, and the capital were held by their firm and faithful hands." Of this distinguished force Harald quickly rose to be chief captain,... | |
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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... 
