Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lled to flee, and had Adventures ofi. ^1 l^„^ „^^^^ (^^ Blood-axe: dis- gone to the Orkneys for tm-bed reign ofsafety. But he was an in- Hakon.triguer, and his sons after him. He issaid to have been given Northumber- 60 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. land, in England, as his inheritance.For a while he had his capital at York,in Britain. There he perished and washuried. But his sons grew iip and up-held the pretensions of their father. Therelations between Denmark and Norwayalso became strained, and the wholereign of Hakon was disturbed with theseantagonisms. It is not our purpose, however, to the northeastern coast of the UnitedvStates, as along the whole shore of Nor-way, a plan directly the reverse is presentin the bearing of the water and the land.If we should say that no shore line in thew^orld is so jagged, so ragged, so eateninto by the water, so contentious with thesea by its reaching out in peninsulas andislands, as that of Norway, all the wayaround from the fifty-eighth parallel
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SCENE IN THE FAROES.—Thorshavn. trace the political history of Norway,but rather to notice the character andVariableness of progrcss of the Norwegiansr;io:?f?J;st themselves. Nature haslines of Norway, ibeen exceedingly variablein the formation of coast lines. vSome-times, as on the western extreme of theUnited States, the ocean lies up lovinglyto the beach, in long straio-ht lines, withscarcely an inlet or a bar. In otherparts of the world, as in Greece, as along north to almost eighty degrees, the ex-pression would not be strained. Thesame characteristic is noted in theadjacent islands, such as the Faroes, thevShetlands, and the Orkneys. As weascend the coast there is a generalenlargement of the formation, so thatabove sixty-eight degrees there is aperpetual series of considerable inletsand projections of land. Indeed, thewhole Norwegian coast is a chain of THE NORSE.~NOR WEGIANS. 61 successive havens. Not even the coastof Maine is more indented—or could be—than that which lie

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