10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROLF THE GANGER»
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Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago
“Why, child,” answered Master Herve, “the blood of Rolf the Ganger runs in his
veins, and every true Northman loves a good ship and a good fight!— especially
if there is a good prize at the end of it!” “Tell us about Rolf the Ganger!” put in Alan
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Rolf was a great viking; he was grown so big that no horse could bear him and he
therefore walked everywhere; he was called Rolf the Ganger. He harried much in
the eastern countries. One summer when he had come to Viken, he learned of ...
Elizabeth Van Houts, 2000
Rolf the "ganger" (the "go-ahead" as we should say) seized the Seine mouth from
the King of France and became first Duke of Normandy (Norsemen-dy) in 911.
While other vikings settled in Dublin, Waterford, Man and Lancashire, Gu thrum ...
For 200 years they had a kingdom of all of Sicily (Italy). A red-headed Rotary
student came here from Brazil. She told her ancestry was Italian. Sure Vikings.
After 1066 William built the formidable fortress known as. 320 Rolf the Ganger (
Rollo ...
Settlement of Iceland, we say; settlement of the Faroe Islands, and, by far the
notablest of all, settlement of Normandy by Rolf the Ganger (A.D. 876?).2 Rolf,
son of Rognwald,3 was lord of three little islets far north, near the Fjord of Folden,
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... Rollo) raided his own country of Norway. A Norse saga tells us that Rolf was "a
great Viking, and so large that no horse could carry him, so that he walked
wherever he went, and for this reason he was called Rolf the Ganger (Rolf the
Walker) ...
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Northumbrian History, Literature, and Art
That giant Rolf, whom no horse could carry and who had therefore to gang on
foot and so was called Rolf the Ganger, was foremost amongst the Vikings who
gave to Europe the little leaven of determined power which may truly be said to
have ...
Tomas Hodgkin, Robert Spence Watson, R. Oliver Heslop, 1999
That was the end of Rognwald, the invaluable jarl, always true to Haarfagr; 10
and distinguished in world history by producing Rolf the Ganger, author of the
Norman Conquest of England, and Turf-Einar, who invented peat in the Orkneys.
Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche, 2002
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and ...
of Rognwald, the invaluable jarl, always true to Haarfagr ; and distinguished in
world history by producing Rolf the Ganger, author of the Norman Conquest of
England, and Turf-Einar, who invented peat in the Orkneys. Whether Rolf had left
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Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
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English and Norse Documents Relating to
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Richard, Earl of Rouen was son of Richard, who was son of William Long-Spear,
and he was son of Rolf the Ganger, who won Normandy, and he was son of
Rognvald the Mighty, Earl of Mcerir, as was told before. From Rolf the Ganger are
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