A Short History Of Denmark: What You Require To Know About The Danes
For they straightway shod themselves with wooden clogs, and trod with unhurt steps upon the points that lay beneath their soles. Now this iron thing is divided into 4 spikes, which are so arranged that on whatsoever side likelihood may perhaps cast it, it stands steadily on 3 equal feet. Then they struck into the pathless glades, where the woods had been thickets, and expelled Flokk, the chief of the Russians, from the mountain hiding-places into which he had crept. And right here they got so substantially booty, that there was not one of them but went back to the...