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the islands as depôts and arsenals; thence pushing
on to Ireland or rounding the Cornish peninsula, to
make the British Channel or the South Welsh havens;
or weathering the rocky Breton headlands and trending
southwards along the Frankish, Gascon, Spanish,
and Moorish shores.
The fleets that took this route were mainly Danes
and Gotas, and their leaders of Danish blood, and
they followed the path by which their predecessors,
the Saxons, Angles, and Eotes, had come three centuries
earlier, only going further because they did not
find such an easy prey.
The second stream of migration, that followed by
the Northmen, was a new one. Its fountain head is
the deep firths of the west coast of Norway, whence
it crosses to the Isles of the Caledonians and Picts
(Shetland, Orkney, and Pentland coasts), whence it
turns south to Fife, and as far as the Northumbrian
and Lincoln lands; or curving round through the
Hebrides into the Sea of Man, touches that island
and all the fair coasts, Pictish, Irish, and British, that
lie about it; thence south, lapping the west and south
of Ireland.
From the Northmen’s settlements in our own islands
there later went forth on new ventures, to unpeopled
and dimly known lands, many venturous souls, over
the Haaf (the Atlantic) by way of the Sheep Islands
(Faroes) to Iceland, setting up prosperous colonies
where the feet of no man, save the Irish hermit, had
ever trod. Whence, again, bolder spirits still braved
the Arctic Sea, and established two settlements on the
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