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Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnatti : The Jones brothers New York : Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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flourishunder a comparatively liberal government. Turning to Norway, we find that countryconquering Iceland in the year 1261. Thiswork was effected by Haco V., who, in thefollowing year, was defeated in a battle nearthe mouth of the Clyde. After this therewas a period of retrogression in Norway. Theconstant wars of Denmark exhausted the en-ergies of the kingdom. The industries of theNorwegians were retarded by a monopolywhich was obtained by the Hanseatic League.During the first half of the fourteenth cen-tury Norway declined under these adverse in-fluences until her power was little felt, even inthe affairs of the North. In 1348 the greatplague known as the Black Death broke out inthe kingdom ; and, if the horrid traditions of 152 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. the times may be trusted, two-thirds of thepeople were swept iutu the grave. It isprobable that no other European state suf- fered to an equal degree iu proportion topopulation. ileanwhile, in 1319, after the death of
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THE jEMIRAMIi OF THE Ni,)KTH.Drawn by A. de Neuville. PEOPLE AND KINGS.—SPAIN, ITALY, AND NORTH OF EUROPE. 153 Haco VII., the Swedes obtaiued the Norwe-gian throne, and held it through two succes-sive reigng. The country was merged firstwith Sweden and afterwards with Denmark,and so complete was the national abasementunder foreign rule that the people lost theirlanguage, and spoke thenceforth a brokenform of Swedish anil Danish. The marriageof Haco VIII. with the daughter of Walde-mar of Denmark has already been mentioned.This Haco reigned until 1380, when he wassucceeded bv his son. Olaf III., as ruler to do for Norway what the Normans did forSaxon England after the Conquest. The na-tive nobility was reduced to beggary and de-stroyed. It appears that of the three stateswhich were amalgamated under the Union ofCalmar, Norway suffered most in her local in-terests, and it was not until the sixteenthcentury that she began to revive from herlong and enforced lethargy. The history of Den

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