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Wulfric the Weapon Thane

CHAPTER XVI
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The penalty for wilful murder was death.
xii Nidring, niddering, or nithing, may be beet expressed by "worthless ".

It was the extreme term of reproach to a Saxon.
xiii The "Lodbrokar-Quida", which is still in existence.

By some authorities Ragnar is said to have been the father of Ingvar and Hubba, but the dates are most uncertain.
xiv "The Fates" of the Northern mythology.
xv St.Ansgar, or Ansgarius, built the first church in Denmark at Hedeby, now Slesvig, in 840 A.D.
xvi The "twilight of the Gods", when the Asir were to fight against the powers of evil, and a new order should commence.
xvii The Danes traced their origin back to a great migration from the East, under Odin.

Their priesthood was vested in the head of the tribe after the ancient patriarchal custom.
xviii The great representative Council from which our Parliament sprang.
xix Four degrees of kingship are spoken of in the Sagas, the highest being the overlord, to whom the lesser kings paid tribute.
The "kings of the host" came third in rank, the "sea kings" last, these being usually sons of under kings, to whom a ship or two had been given.
xx Now Peterborough.
xxi Tribute.
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