Early Kings Of Norway
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781419117121
Subjects: Biography: royalty; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Europe - Scandinavia; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Northern Europe, Scandinavia; Royalty
First sentence: Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls,-essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but,-in spite of "Fylke Things" (Folk Things, little parish parliaments), and small combinations of these, which had gradually formed themselves,-often reduced to the unhappy state of quarrel with them.