History of Scandinavia: From the Early Times of the Northmen and Vikings to the Present DayPudney & Russell, 1860 - 436 sivua |
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Adolphus affairs Albrecht alliance appointed archbishop ascended the throne Baltic battle became bishop brave brother burgher class called Calmar Canute Lavard Charles Canutson Charles Gustavus Charles XII Christian II Christopher church clergy commanded commerce Copenhagen Corfitz Ulfeldt Count court crown crown-prince Danes Danish army Danish king Danish language death defeated Denmark and Norway died Diet duchy of Schleswig duke elected emperor enemy England erected Erik Erik of Pomerania Europe father favor fleet fortress France Frederick Frederick III German Gottorp Harald Bluetooth highly Holland Holstein Iceland island Jutland king of Denmark king of Sweden king's kingdom land liberty Lübeck Lund Magnus Margarethe Mecklenburg nevertheless nobility noblemen Norsemen North northern Norwegian Olaf peace peasantry peasants Pomerania possessed prince queen Ranzau Reformation reign of Christian rixdollars Roeskilde royal Russia Scandinavian Sjelland Skane soon spirit Struensee Swedish Swen thousand tion troops Ulfeldt Vasa victory Waldemar whole
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Sivu 336 - Certainly that is the highest commendation of a minister, to be " an able minister of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit.
Sivu 260 - Neither I should," answered the rittmaster ; " but that great leader, captain, and king, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant faith...
Sivu 297 - I think I have in my affliction, that I can say, unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my trouble.
Sivu 76 - ... description of the coasts, especially the white sand-banks of Nova Scotia, and the long beaches and downs of a peculiar appearance on Cape Cod (the Kialarnes and Furdustrandir of the Northmen) are not to be mistaken.
Sivu 75 - Icelandic voyage-chroniclers respecting the climate, the soil and the productions of this new country are very characteristic. Nay, we have even a statement of this kind as old as the eleventh century, from a writer not a Northman, Adam of Bremen ; he states, on the authority of...
Sivu 227 - Copenhagen, at which all the nobility and deputies of the burgher class and peasantry met together, the noble king procured the suppression of the Romish worship, and the abrogation of episcopacy and the episcopal hierarchy; the titles, however, of the bishops being retained, which more easily reconciled the clergy to it. The castles, fortresses, and vast domains of the bishops were now reunited to the crown, and the rest of their revenues applied to the maintenance of Lutheran ministers, the purposes...
Sivu 110 - Thus he was equally beloved by his generals and by the troops he was appointed to lead. He was possessed of the greatest courage in opposing danger, and the greatest presence of mind in obviating it.
Sivu 396 - ... his chamber on the night of the 24th of March. His son and successor Alexander at once resolved to abandon the confederacy, and to cultivate the friendship of Great Britain. Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia followed his example ; and thus was dissolved, in less than six months after it had been formed, the League of the North, — the most formidable confederacy ever arrayed against the maritime power of England.
Sivu 313 - The privileges, both honorary and substantial, enjoyed by the ricos hombres, were very considerable. They filled the highest posts in the state. They originally appointed judges in their domains for the cognizance of certain civil causes, and over a class of their vassals exercised an unlimited criminal jurisdiction. They were excused from taxation except in specified cases ; were exempted from all corporal and capital punishment; nor could they be imprisoned, although their estates might be sequestrated...
Sivu 196 - But amidst these laudable cares, the abominable tribunal of the Inquisition was furnished with such an extent of powers, that, under the pretence of extirpating heresy and impiety, the whole kingdom became a scene of blood and horror. The fortunes and the lives of individuals were entirely at the mercy of the grand inquisitor and his associates. It was never allowed to a criminal to be confronted with his accuser, nor even to be informed of his crime ; the sole method of trial was by exposing the...