Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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Atque Sic Genti Nostra Originem Prabentes, Se Islandos
Nuncuparunt, Quod Nomen Hodie Posteri Retinent.
Vixerunt itaque Islandi
diu, nullius imperium agnoscentes, annis scilicet 386.
Plus minus. Et
quamuis Rex Noruagia Haquinus ille conatus, qui omnium regum Noruagia
diutissime, nempe plusquam 66. annos imperium gerebat, sape per legatos
tentarat tributarios sibi facere Islandos, constanter tamen semper
restiterunt, donec tandem circa annum Domini 1260. homagium ipsi
prastarent. [Sidenote: Margareta.] Atque postea semper in data fide
persistentes, et regibus Noruagia parentes, translato per Margaretam,
Dania, Suecia, et Noruagia reginam, Noruagorum imperio, ad Danos, vna cum
reliquis imperij Noruagici Insulis, Serenissimum Dania regem; Dominum et
Regem suum hodie salutant.
The same in English.
THE FIFTH SECTION.
[Sidenote: Munsterus. Krantzius.] The King of Denmarke and Norway sendeth
euery yeere a Lieutenant into the Countrey.
In the yeere of our Lord eight hundred fortie and sixe Harold Harfagre
(which is to say, golden haires or faire lockes) was borne. Who afterward
in the yeere eight hundred fiftie and eight, being chosen king of Norway,
when he was growen to age, and full strength, chaunged the forme of the
Noruagian gouernment. For whereas before it was diuided into pettie
Prouinces (which they called Fylki, and the pettie kings that gouerned
them, fylkis konga) he reduced it by force of armes vnto a Monarchie.
[Sidenote: The occasion of the first inhabiting of Island by the people of
Norway.] But when some inhabitants of the countrie, being mightie, and
descended of good parentages, could not well brooke this hard dealing, they
chose rather to be banished their countrey, then not to shake off the yoke
of tyranny.
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