But we may go back farther still, and discover in the lonely mountain valleys and fiord-sides of Norway even a simpler, courtlier, and nobler dignity. In the country of the sagamen and the rough sea-kings, beside the steep-shored harbors of the viking dragon-ships, linger the constantly repeated types of an earlier ancestry, and the flower of the sagas blooms as fair as ever. Among the red roofs and gray walls of the Norman towns, or the faint, bright colors of its country landscapes, among the green hedgerows and golden wheat-fields of England, the same flowers grow in more luxuriant fashion, but old Norway and Denmark sent out the seed that has flourished in richer soil. To-day the Northman, the Norman, and the Englishman, and a young nation on this western shore of the Atlantic are all kindred who, possessing a rich inheritance, should own the closest of kindred ties.
Ælfred, the Confessor's brother, 184, 188
Æthelred the Unready, 102, 171; English contempt for, 175; flees to Normandy, 177
Alan of Brittany, 70, 126, 137; death of, 151
Alençon, siege of, 213; Lord of, see William de Talvas
Apulia, 131, 139; allegiance to Rome, 140
Bayeux, Northmen in, 40, 59; Richard the Fearless educated in, 62; description of, 323
Brittany, 58; Danish settlements in, 61; enmity between Normandy and, 76; tributary to Normandy, 246; William's expedition against, 265; aids William, 285
Burgundy, 54, 246; king of, 86; Henry of, 106
Caen, 113; William builds Church of St. Stephen in, 237; 298, 321, 322, 340
Charlemagne, 11, 19; empire of, 34, 52, 88
Charles the Simple, 34; resists Rolf's invasion, 37; captivity of, 56
Chartres, Count of, 38; siege of, 41, 109
Cnut the Dane, 106, 119; banishment of English nobles, 120; chosen king, 177; his improvement and England's, 178; pilgrimage to Rome, 182; letter of, 182; death, 183
Côtentin, 103, 113; castles of, 116; over-population of, 116; home of the Hautevilles, 134; rebellions, 152, 202; designs of Henry of France toward, 247; men at Hastings, 306; sold by Robert of Normandy, 348
Danes in Bayeux, 74; in England, 103; inheritance from, in Northern England, 187; schemes for regaining England, 258
Dickens' "Child's History of England," 328
Eadgyth (or Edith), the Confessor's wife, 188, 270