Danes
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Danish · the Danish troops
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Norse settlers who typically held the Irish port towns of Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick.
‘When the King of Erin is without opposition’—that is, as the explanation runs, when he holds the ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick, which were usually in the hands of the Danes—‘he receives stock from the King of the Romans’ (S.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Danish settlers and conquerors whose presence in England preceded and paralleled Norman unification.
England threatened once more to fall to pieces, but the iron rule of the Normans came to complete what the Danes had begun half a century before.
and one effect of the settlements of the Danes was to create a barrier between the lands that lay on either side of Watling Street, before the whole country succumbed to the unifying pressure of Canute and his sons.