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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 9
were pursued by his policy. Sigefroi could not obtain BOOK i.
his friendship, or rather his forbearance, except on
condition that the refugee Saxons, Frizons, Soarbes,
and his suc-
&c., should be expelled from Denmark, 1
cessor Godfrey found it necessary to conclude a treaty
binding himself to drive out of his states the Pagans
who had sought an asylum there. 8
Thus compelled to seek other homes, these infuri-
ated Pagans, or, as De Mezeray writes, "The banished
and their descendants, burning with a cruel desire to
avenge their gods and their liberty, made continual
sorties, and principally exercised their rage on the
priests and on the monks who had destroyed their
CnAP- T
temples and their superstitions." 3
The Danes, who saw with uneasiness the progres- The Danes
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sive conquests of Charlemagne, quickly imbibed the ?nJTof the
feelings of their homeless kinsmen, and in A.D. 800 /Infest Infest th the coasts
they dared to infest the coasts of France."4
1 Pontanus. Her. Danic, p. 90. des Danois ou Nonnands ; de-
2 Hist, de Charl., vol. ii., p. 273.- marcheimportante, premiere epoque
3 " L'Idolatrie, &c., &c., etant d'une grande revolution dans
vivement pressee par les armes des 1'Europe. Ce fut cette alliance de
Francois, elle s'etait jettee au-dela Vitikind avec Sigefroi, ce furent
de 1'Elbe et en Danemarc comme ses continuelles instigations qui at-
en son dernier fort, d'ou ces ban- tirerent sur les cotes de la France
nis et leurs descendants brulant ces Normands,"
Sailing ofJ rmnce> A>D-
&c. Hist, de
d'un cruel desir de venger leurs Charlemagne par Gaillard, Paris,
Dieux et leur liberte, faisoient de 1782, vol. ii., p. 231.
continuelles sorties et exer