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...hippodrome ; he flept and feafted under their trufty guard ; and the keys of the palace, the treafury, and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians (48). In the tenth century, the geography of Scy- Geography ,. , , r V j Pi i- • r and trade of tma...

...ofthe Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...and feasted under their trusty guard; and the keys ofthe palace, the treasury, and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians."...

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...the inheritance of spotless loyalty, and the use of the Danish or English tongue. The Greek emperor slept and feasted under their trusty guard; and the...held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians *. In the tenth century the monarchy of the Russians obtains a vast and conspicuous place in the map...

...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." (lf>) Bore off the holy vessels, crowns of gold, With silver shrines, copes, cups, and gem-wrought...

...Byzantine court; and they preserved, till the last aere of the empire, the inheritance of spotless lovaltv. and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." (l6) Bore off the holy vessels, crowns of gold, With silver shrines, copes, cups, and gem-wrought robes,...

...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and doubleedged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate,...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians. 224. Describe the first naval expedition of the Russians against Constantinople. Under the command...

...the Danish or English tongue. With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek Emperor to the temple, the senate,...by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians." The expedition of Thiodolf against the Bulgarians is probably imitated from that of John Zimisces against...

...This celebrated Varangian body-guard, to use the words of Gibbon, " with their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, attended the Greek...of this Czar, Olga, who was distinguished for what we are sorry to iny appear to have been the two principal traits of the old Scandinavian character...