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SagasSagas are poetical histories describing ancient times, one's ancestors[?], or histories of people and nations. So-called sagamadras[?] recorded most of the Icelandic sagas between 1180 and 1300 A.D. Based on Norwegian and Icelandic histories and [genealogy | genealogies]], these sagas present views of Nordic life and times up to 1100 A.D. The saga writers sought to record their heroes' great achievements and to glorify the virtues of courage, pride and honour, focusing in the later sagas on early Icelandic settlers.
The original vellum manuscripts as well as copies made during the Middle Ages and some present-day translations of the sagas can be studied on-line at the following website:
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forever, the Protestant Church, with the arms which a bench of bishops
streaming like a meteor in the wind, dashing through the mountain passes,
of Granvelle! Disguised as an old woman, the Emperor had attempted on
Flanders. Saved for the time by the mediation of Ferdinand, he had,
at Fussen, again fled at midnight of the 22nd May, almost unattended,
along the difficult Alpine passes from Innspruck into Carinthia.
"for such a bird he had no convenient cage." The imprisoned princes now
The peace of Passau, in the following August, crushed the whole fabric
He had smitten the Protestants at Muhlberg for the last time. On the
been the vassal, was compelled to witness, before he departed, the
his house, and trampling upon the pride of Charles, Philip and Ferdinand.
imperial zodiac the fatal sign of Cancer had been reached. The figure of
ultra," scrawled on the walls where he had resided during that dismal
previous misfortunes of France. The Grand Turk, too, Solyman the
ready to sail against Naples, in co-operation with the Pope and France.
together to crush him. Towards all the great powers of the earth, he
defeated potentate. Moreover, he had been foiled long before in his
Maximilian had both stoutly resisted his arguments and his blandishments.
family, compared with the enormous heritage of Philip; who, being after
a pressure of empire as his father wished to provide for him. Maximilian,
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