half-subjection

Updated: January 10, 2026

They sailed far up the coast, and then, leaving their ship in a northern fiord, struck inland across the mountains. The country they were going to lay among the lakes of North Sweden. Its people were more barbarous than the Norwegians, and had long been in a state of half-subjection to the Norse kings.

J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston - Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell