 | John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 oldal
...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battleaxes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians.' Readers of history will all admit this to be a striking passage ; and readers of romance will not,... | |
 | Jonathan Perkins Weethee - 1897 - 664 oldal
...Danish or English tongue. With v 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." — Gibbon. We have quoted extensively from Gibbon for the purpose of establishing the Scandinavian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 oldal
...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." In the tenth century (AD 950), the geography of Scythia was extended far beyond the limits of ancient... | |
 | Gabriel Bie Ravndal - 1921 - 120 oldal
...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,...palace, the treasury, and the capital were held by the f rm and laithful hands of the Varangians. (Gibbon.) That they retained, amid tl'eir eastern surroundings,... | |
 | 1914 - 296 oldal
...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." Their commander at this time (Michael IV. the Paphlagonian, 1034-1041), Harald the son of Sigurd, with... | |
 | Fred Singleton - 1998 - 228 oldal
...guard for the Byzantine emperor: With their broad and double edged battle axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate and the hippodrome . . . and the keys of the palace, the treasury and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful... | |
 | 1890 - 340 oldal
...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. MERCENARIES: ISLAMIC EDWARD GIBBON, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. vi, chap. lxiv. 1788... | |
 | 1857 - 466 oldal
...on their shoulders they attended the great Emperor to the temple, the senate, and the llippodroine ; he slept and feasted under their trusty guard ; and...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians.' " I have thus endeavoured to give a sketch of the operations which I was enabled to carry out, in the... | |
 | 1921 - 1334 oldal
...Danish or English tongue. With their tiroad and doii He-edged battle-ayes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome: heslentand feasted under their trusty guard, and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the capital... | |
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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... 
