well-deservedly

Updated: August 4, 2026

Well-deservedly, as still appears; for their taxings and extortions of malt, of herring, of meal, smithwork and every article taxable in Norway, were extreme; and their service to the country otherwise nearly imperceptible. In brief their one basis there was the power of Knut the Great; and that, like all earthly things, was liable to sudden collapse, and it suffered such in a notable degree.

Thomas Carlyle - Early Kings of Norway