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Had they been, they would have been face to face with a Frank, or a Lombard, or a Visigoth, much what not a Sikh, a Rohilla, or a Ghoorka, but a Bengalee proper would be face to face with an Englishman. One thousand Varangers might have walked from Constantinople to Alexandria without fighting a pitched battle, if they had had only Greeks and Syrians to face. Thus the Romans were growing weak.
and took ship for Constantinople, and enlisted in the Varanger guard, and died full of years and honors, leaving fair-haired children behind them, to become Varangers in their turn. Be that as it may, Hereward rode south. He was not going in pomp and glory enough. It seemed mean for the once great Hereward to sneak into Winchester with three knights.
Would he not forget Alftruda, and King William, and all the world, and go up with her into Sherwood, and then north to Scotland and Gospatrick, and be a man once more? No. He would go with her to the Baltic or the Mediterranean. Constantinople and the Varangers would be the place and the men. Ay, there to escape out of that charmed ring into a new life! No.
Of the earls and knights in Ely, all I can say is, God's pity that they are rebels, for more gallant and courteous knights or more perfect warriors never saw I, neither in Normandy nor at Constantinople, among the Varangers themselves." "Eh! and what are the names of these gallants; for you have used your eyes and ears, of course?" "Edwin and Morcar, the earls, two fine young lads." "I know it.
Their boldest outlaws at that very time whether from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, or Britain were forming the imperial life-guard of the Byzantine Emperor, as the once famous Varangers of Constantinople; and that splendid epoch of their race was just dawning, of which my lamented friend, the late Sir Edmund Head, says so well in his preface to Viga Glum's Icelandic Saga, "The Sagas, of which this tale is one, were composed for the men who have left their mark in every corner of Europe; and whose language and laws are at this moment important elements in the speech and institutions of England, America, and Australia.
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