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Yaropolk immediately dispatched lieutenants to take possession of the government, and thus all Russia, as a united kingdom, was again brought under the sway of a single sovereign. From 973 to 1092. Flight of Vlademer. His Stolen Bride. The March Upon Kief. Debauchery of Valdemar. Zealous Paganism. Introduction of Christianity. Baptism in the Dnieper. Entire Change in the Character of Valdemar.
"Seven days ago," Egbert went on, "we crossed in one of the king's ships to an island that lies out to the west of Esthonia. Dago is the name of the island. "There Sigurd landed, meaning to gather taxes and tribute from the people. But no sooner was he ashore than the people told him that they were no longer the subjects of King Valdemar but of a new king whom they had chosen for themselves.
By the gods! . . . 'tis but a puff of thistle-down or a light mist floating from the sunset to the sea!" He made a vigorous attempt to raise himself from his pillow though the excruciating anguish caused by his movement, made him wince a little and grow paler. "Wine, Valdemar! Fill the horn cup to the brim and bring it to me I must have strength to speak before I depart on the last great journey."
King Valdemar had a mother named Gerda, who was so old and infirm that she always lay abed. She was wonderfully skilled in spaedom, and it was always the custom at yuletide, when the guests assembled in the king's hall, that his mother was borne in thither and placed in the high seat.
Then came King Valdemar, who by force and fraud stopped the voyage, and induced Hakon to marry Margaret, then eleven years of age, who thereby got the crown of Norway. Elizabeth was sent to Vadstene cloister, where her will was not asked.
Her anxiety was very great she could not disguise from herself that Thelma's life was in danger, and both she and Valdemar wrote to Sir Philip Errington, preparing him for the worst, and urging him to come at once, little aware that the very night the lifeless child was born, was the same on which he had started from Hull for Christiansund, after his enforced waiting for the required steamer.
Rust has no effect. The record lasts as long as steel lasts." Craig continued to tinker tantalizingly with the machine which had been invented by a Dane, Valdemar Poulsen. He had scarcely finished testing out the telegraphone, when the laboratory door opened and a clean-cut young man entered.
The dreadful cruelties practised by these pagans upon christian captives cried aloud to all civilized Europe, and Valdemar took the cross "for the honor of the Virgin Mary and the absolution of his sins," and gathered a mighty fleet, the greatest ever assembled in Danish waters. With more than a thousand ships he sailed across the Baltic.
Just then Svend left the hall, and his henchmen fell upon the two with drawn swords. Knud was cut down at once, his head cleft in twain. Valdemar upset the table with the candles and, wrapping his cloak about his arm to ward off the blows that showered upon him, knocked his assailants right and left and escaped, badly wounded.
Perhaps it was not strange that Valdemar should be of two minds about venturing to attack so formidable an enemy in his own house. The nation was cowed and slow to move. In fact, from the first expedition, that started with 250 vessels, only seven returned with the standard, keeping up a running fight all the way across the Baltic with pursuing Wends. The rest had basely deserted.
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