{"product_id":"9781486420858","title":"Canute The Great - The Original Classic Edition","description":"Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Canute The Great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Laurence Marcellus Larson Ph.D., which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Canute The Great:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese investigators both came to the same general conclusion: that Old Norse culture, especially on the literary side, shows permeating traces of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon elements; that the Eddic literature was not an entirely native product, but was largely built up in the viking colonies in Britain from borrowed materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...However, the sources on which these are in a measure based, the fragments of contemporary verse that are[Pg x] extant and much that has not survived, have been woven into a history, the equal of which for artistic treatment, critical standards, and true historical spirit will be difficult to find in any other mediæval literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...There were Danish outposts on the Slavic shores of modern Prussia; the larger part of Norway came for some years to be a vassal state under the great earl, Hakon the Bad; the Wick, which comprised the shores of the great inlet that is now known as the Christiania Firth, was regarded as a component part of the Danish monarchy, though in fact the obedience rendered anywhere in Norway was very slight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...Harold Fairhair, the founder of the Norse monarchy, left the sovereignty to his son Eric (later named Bloodax); but the jealousies of Erics many brothers combined with his own cruel régime soon called forth a reaction in favour of a younger brother, Hakon the Good, whose youth had been spent under Christian influences at the English court. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...It has been thought that the revolts represented a heathen reaction against the new faith, or a nationalistic protest against German influences; these factors may have entered in, but it is more likely that a general dissatisfaction with Harolds rule caused by the ill success of his operations against Germans, Swedes, and Norwegians was at the bottom of the [Pg 14]hostilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142274990320,"sku":"9781486420858","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486420858_p0.jpg?v=1763634804","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486420858","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}