Capitolo 30
and it equips naval armaments for the similar consignments. They would go to cruise
along the coasts of the sea, to disembark where they founded a defenseless
sharp, and you ransack a city or you burn a castle, you grab treasures men of capture,
and factory their slaves, abduct women, and sometimes destroy defenseless
children with their lances in a way too much Barbaric and horrid to be
described. On to return to their houses, they would perhaps find, them
his/her own castles burned and their his/her own residences without roof, from the visit of
of the similar horde.
This way the seas of western Europe were covered in those days as them
now it is, with fleets to send; although, instead of being busy as
now, in the calm and peaceful searches of commerce, it loaded with
you advertise, with crew with harmless sailors, and it cordially welcomes wherever them
comes, they was only loaded then with ammunition and arm, and crowded
with thievish fierce and unwise, the objects of the universal horror
and terror.
One of the first one of these maritime kings that acquired enough individual
distinction to personally be remembered in history has given a kind of
the immortality, from his/her enterprises, to the very ill-mannered name of Ragnar Lodbrog,
and its character was ill-mannered as its name.
[The illustration: The Maritime Kings]
The father of Ragnar was a prince of Norway. However, him a Dane got married him
princess, and so Ragnar acquired by law a hereditary kind to
a Danish kingdom--the included territory the various islands and
promontories to the entry of the Baltic Sea. There was however, a
competing for this power, called Harald. It Sends him/it in immunity it causes common and sort
with Harald. Ragnar was defeated and driven away from the earth. Although
however, defeated he was not subjugated. He organized a naval strength, and
a maritime king been manufactured. His/her operations on the tempestuous element of the
seas were conducted with so a lot of decision and energy, and to the same
time with so a lot of system and it plans that its power quickly extended. Him