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LITERATURE



Scandinavia’s entrance into the historic arena of Europe was
accompanied by a vigorous development of force. The viking
expeditions not only brought trouble and disturbance to the
shores of the Baltic and the North Sea; they also occasioned
unrest at home, but this was a fruitful unrest. The sense of their
own power, and the impressions from foreign culture, awakened
national feeling, and gave life to the creative impulse. In
Denmark, however, the foreign element at once crossed the
boundary-lines; [[** sjk]] the kingdom of the Franks reached with its victorious
religion through Saxony up to the borders of that land, and
these gave way before it. Sweden, on the other hand, was shut
off from the western seas, and reduced to intercourse with the
Slav people of the lands surrounding the Baltic, whose culture
had no fertilising power. By her free and westward-facing
position, Norway was saved for a more independent development of
both the Scandinavian and the foreign cultural elements. At the
same time, the union of the country into one kingdom took place.
But many of the mightier chieftains would not submit to the new
condition of affairs, and in their viking-ships they sailed in search
of new homes. They found it best to seek refuge in the Faroe
Isles, and in the great, barren island they had just discovered, —
Iceland. Here there gathered a number of haughty west-Norwegian
warriors, and founded a new Norwegian colony, in which the
national characteristics throve. Through the Norwegian vikings
on British soil, Christianity came both to the mother-country and
to the colony, at the end of the 10th century. The fruitful
restlessness of minds, however, had succeeded in preserving the rich

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