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	Northmen: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northmen were also known as Ascomannii by the Germans (perhaps due to their mythological ancestor Ask (additional info and facts about Ask)), Lochlanach by the Irish and Dene (Daner (additional info and facts about Daner)) by the Anglo-Saxons.
		Tolkien (additional info and facts about J. Tolkien) adopted the term in his fiction; his "Northmen" were Men (The force of workers available) that lived in the north of Rhovanion (additional info and facts about Rhovanion) in Middle-earth (additional info and facts about Middle-earth), and were friendly to Gondor (additional info and facts about Gondor).
		Shortly after the death of Vidugavia a small group of Northmen moved to the vales of the Anduin between the Gladden Fields and the Mirkwood, probably to flee from the Wainriders (additional info and facts about Wainriders), who had enslaved Rhovanion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/northmen.htm (606 words)

	Tel'Edain ~ Northmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Northmen from the mainland have a slow style of speaking, while those from the Moonshaes may have picked up a little of the lilting accent of the Ffolk.
		The Northmen are consummate survivors, but oddly enough Northlander fighters are frequently berserkers (a style of fighting not usually associated with a long life).
		The Northmen inhabitants on the mainland used to be nomadic hunters, warriors or seafarers, and by and large could be classified as barbarians.
	myth-drannor.net /DlabraddathNet/z-Edain/Northmen.htm (982 words)

	Northvegr - The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northmen were the descendants of a race that in early times migrated from Asia and travelled toward the north, settling down in what is now the kingdom of Denmark.
		He clearly believed, as the Northmen did, namely, that Greenland was an extension of Norway, and that Vinland lay contiguous, while what he desired was to reach the eastern coast of Asia.
		In Greenland the evidences of the Northmen's occupation are abundant, because they were regularly established on the ground for generations, and formed their public and private edifices of the only material at hand, which was well nigh imperishable.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/precolumbian/000.php (17578 words)

	123Student
		The wendol are a threat to the existence of the Northmen in Venden; hence, Buliwyf and his mighty warriors must battle them in order to preserve the future of their people.
		The Northmen are not as physically strong as the wendol, and therefore they lost in battle, showing that physical strength is not enough to overcome an obstacle.
		Her knowledge helps the Northmen be prepared for battle with the wendol by looking into the future and report all findings.
	www.123student.com /english/1334.shtml (1748 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Northmen (Vikings)
		The work of destruction which the first stream of Northmen wrought on the continent is told in words of despair in what is left of the Frankish Chronicles, for the pagan and greedy invaders seem to have singled out the monasteries for attack and must have destroyed most of the records of their own devastation.
		Their serious attacks did not begin till the empire of Charlemagne was weakened from within, and the Teutonic principle of division among heirs was overcoming the Roman principle of unity.
		But races which assimilate are not enduring, and by the end of the twelfth century the Northmen had finished their work in Europe and been absorbed into the population which they had conquered and governed.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11115b.htm (1608 words)

	Races
		Northmen rely primarily on agriculture for their food production, and supplement this with hunting.
		Northmen are, in essence, Vikings, and live much like they would, in villages, with a leader, a few fighting men, and then farmers, craftsmen, etc. There is not unity in the Northmen "kingdoms", a "King"'s authority extends only as far as he can enforce it with fighting men loyal to him.
		Though often seen as coarse and brutal by outsiders, Northmen are loyal and faithful to thier kin and comrades.
	red_tiger4.tripod.com /finalfantasysaviors/id2.html (1206 words)

	ME-PBM 2950 Nation: Northmen
		The Northmen nation is composed of the remnants of the Lake-men and Dale-men of Rhovanion, a decline brought on by the settling of the Dragon Smaug in nearby Erebor (the Lonely Mountain), as well as the influential Dorwinrim residing near the Sea of Rhûn.
		Northmen Emissaries are created and used to improve and support their settlements, as well as influence or pressure the potential adversaries that surround them - namely the Rhûn Easterlings, the Dog Lord, the Long Rider, and the Dark Lieutenants.
		Historically reluctant to show off their wealth, the Northmen have even considered using their gold reserves to secure more economic security by adding to their mithril stores, or by financing the growth of the Northmen military.
	members.optusnet.com.au /pbmplay/nmen2950.html (471 words)

	Rohan
		The Northmen in turn were descended from the same ancient race of Men as the Edain.
		The Northmen lived mainly in the eaves of the forest and raised large herds of horses on the wide plain between Mirkwood and the River Running.
		After the decimation of the Northmen, Marhari's son Marhwini led a group of survivors to live along the Anduin between the Gladden Fields and the Carrock, mainly on the western bank of the river.
	www.tuckborough.net /rohan.html (5540 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pre-Columbian Discovery of America
		For the oldest written evidence of the discovery of Greenland and America by the Northmen, we are indebted to Adam, a canon of the Church of Bremen, who about 1067 went to Bremen, where he devoted himself very earnestly to the study of Norse history.
		This saga represents the Old Northmen sailing the Atlantic with a confidence to be envied by the most experienced captains of today, the leaders of seven different expeditions finding, apparently without difficulty, the buoir (huts) of Leif.
		As the sources testify, and modern excavations have shown, the Northmen of Greenland, as well as their Icelandic cousins, were active cattle breeders, and raised horses, cattle, sheep, and goats, so that they might easily pay their tithes in calf-skins.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01416a.htm (7713 words)

	ME-PBM 1650 Nation: Northmen
		The Northmen nation is composed of both the Lake-men and Dale-men of Rhovanion, as well as the Dorwinrim residing near the Sea of Rhûn.
		Northmen Emissaries are created and used to improve and support their settlements, as well as influence or pressure the potential adversaries that surround them - namely the Easterlings and the Long Rider.
		Also, the Northmen ponder economic support for their neighbors, namely the Éothraim and the Woodmen, in exchange for their protection or their surplus resources.
	members.optusnet.com.au /pbmplay/nmen1650.html (422 words)

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		The Norvegians settled in Greenland and in the Labrador coasts, the Swedes reached the Russia plains and founded the Novgorod and Kiew principalities.
		In 1030 Rainulfo obtained from the Duke of Naples the County of Aversa; the Altavilla brothers became Dukes of Melfi, Robert the Guiscardo severed Puglia and Calabria to the Byzantine and his brother became prince of Capua.
		Later on the Northmen conquered Sicily from which the Arabs caused robberies to the Puglia and Calabria inhabitants.
	web.tiscali.it /itcalaimo/Francofonte/Normanni2.htm (222 words)

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		Pirates of the Northmen's race came to Nantes, killed the bishop and many of the clergy and laymen, both men and women, and pillaged the city.
		Euric, king of the Northmen, advanced, with six hundred vessels, along the course of the River Elbe to attack Louis of Germany[5] The Saxons prepared to meet him, gave battle, and with the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ won the victory.
		The Northmen returned [from Paris] down the Seine and coming to the ocean pillaged, destroyed, and burned all the regions along the coast.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Northmen.html (897 words)

	Parma leo Rochwaith Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northmen had been in this country for many years when I came to this land but they were yet new to this land for they were originally from the eastern Vales beyond the Mirkwood.
		They explained that a great party of Northmen soldiery and nobles appeared to be riding under a white banner of their kind that carried, what were described by the scouts, as signets of a bird.
		But as the Northmen moved from place to place the title less used became the one that denoted the main chiefs of the greater tribes who came to be known as the reiks-fravia.
	www.intrnet.net /~efenglom/Heorthstreow/Tolkien/Rohan/chapter1.htm (5772 words)

	The Norman Dynasties
		The Northmen's most remarkable and enduring efforts were in northwestern France, which became the French province of 'Normandie'.
		In the early ninth century, the Northmen's attempted settlements at Bordeaux and in the Charente regions failed.
		Failing to advance further into northern France, the Northmen consolidated their settlement around the ancient town of Bayeux, which had been a Roman town and an important episcopal city, that developed from an earlier Gaulish capital of the Bajocasses.
	xenophongroup.com /montjoie/norman.htm (2438 words)

	Newman Reader - Northmen & Normans in England & Ireland - 2
		These colonies, which sometimes made war on each other, and at others combined together against the Irish or the English, preserved their warlike spirit, by which, although possessing only a few ports and a small portion of the interior, they were able to maintain themselves for some centuries.
		In consequence of their position, by race Northmen, by birth Irish, by dwelling maritime, they were the natural medium of intercourse between their own and their adopted country, and, in consequence, they took to mercantile occupations.
		Men of their own race, already converted and civilized, were equal to the enterprise, and these the Pope sent first to England, then to Ireland, to undertake it [Note 21].
	www.newmanreader.org /works/historical/volume3/northmen/section2.html (4771 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Three Sources on the Ravages of the Northmen in Frankland, c. 843 - 912
		The second day after the fleet of the Northmen arrived under the walls of the city, Siegfried, who was then king only in name but who was in command of the expedition, came to the dwelling of the illustrious bishop.
		In the morning the Northmen, boarding their ships, approached the tower and attacked it [the tower blocked access to the city by the so-called "Great Bridge," which connected the right bank of the Seine with the island on which the city was built.
		He allowed the Northmen to have the country of Sens to plunder; and in the spring he gave them 700 pounds of silver on condition that by the month of March they leave France for their own kingdom.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/843bertin.html (2259 words)

	Third Age: The Northmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northmen of Rhovanion were a numerous and powerful confederation living in the wide plains between Mirkwood and the river Celduin.
		In 1856 the still-depleted Northmen took the brunt of the first assault of the Wainrider invasion.
		Some of the Northmen fled to Dale, some took refugee in Gondor, and others were gathered by Marhwini and passed north between Mirkwood and the Anduin to settle in the vales of the Anduin between Gladden Fields and the Carrock, where they were joined by other fugitives.
	www.subreality.com /thirdage/northmen.htm (399 words)

	Northmen in Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Northmen also landed on the north coast of Scotland, on the islands off the Scottish coast and on the north and west coasts of Ireland.
		The Northmen who raided and sttled in England were called Danes.
		In 911 A.D., Charles the Simple, King of France, gave the Northmen the province of Normandy to settle in.
	web.udl.es /usuaris/m0163949/northmen.htm (1117 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I think we gave the Northmen a lesson in defence tonight.” When asked how his team made the adjustment to Paterson’s active style in the Orangeville net, Lovell said he generally thought they weren’t having success down low on him.
		Northmen got a turnover in the Whitby end and had a 3 on 3 with Chad Culp the ballcarrier.
		As is always the case with the Northmen, it was the defence that set the tone.
	unofficialola.com /GameRep2003F.html (8408 words)

	Icelandic Sagas, Volume 3: Introduction
		The Northmen, as was their common practice, took the ancient name of the islands as they found it adopted by the Anglo-Saxons.
		The Northmen took her after a sharp struggle, and then, after a custom not uncommon in those times, put into a port in Barbary to dispose of the prisoners they had spared, and some of the goods which they had taken out of their prize.
		All round the ship on both sides a gangway seems to have run, and when these and the poop and forecastle were cleared the ship was said to be "hroðit," and the conquerors passed on from her to the next ship in the enemy's line to which she was as has been said, lashed.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/ice/is3/is301.htm (14763 words)

	SF-Fandom - Rohirrim descended from...
		The Northmen of the Erebor-Celduin region, and probably a number of other tribes of Men in the Anduin Vale as well, were descended ultimately from the migrating ancestors of the nation of Marach or Hador in the First Age.
		The Northmen were I'll guess probably descended from peoples who had been auxilary cavalry for Dwarf-lords of the house of Durin in the Iron Hills and Grey Mts.
		TA 1250 Kingdom of Northmen of Rhovanion at its height, Vidumavi marries Valakar heir to throne of Gondor.
	www.sf-fandom.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21543&goto=newpost (2017 words)

	Northmen, Viking and Danish tales.
		When it thundered, the Northmen said that Thor was using his mighty hammer, one so heavy that he was the only one of the gods who could use it.
		He was always eager to cause trouble but the gods of Asgard forgave him time and time again until, in the end having brought about the death of the much loved Balder, he was finally driven from the palaces of the gods.
		There are many more stories told by the Northmen thousands of years ago, and handed down to us, but the ones here will help you to see how wonderful was the world as imagined by these ancestors of ours.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/northmen.html (575 words)

	Mike's History p 77 - Northmen plunder northern Europe.
		(846) According to their custom the Northmen plundered Eastern and Western Frisia and burned the town of Dordrecht, with two other villages, before the eyes of Lothair, who was then in the castle of Nemwegen, but could not punish the crime.
		The Northmen ceased not from rapine and drove all the inhabitants who were left beyond the Somme....
		The Northmen at the end of October came to Lavier with cavalry, foot soldiers, and all their baggage.
	www.galileolibrary.com /history/history_page_77.htm (1258 words)

	THE PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORTHMEN, WITH TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ICELANDIC SAGAS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The memorial we have a right to expect is some relic, a coin or amulet, perhaps, that chance may yet throw in the antiquary's way, (108) or some excavation, it may be a trench, conduit, cellar, or incipient fortress.
		Many have supposed that the skeleton in armor, dug up near Fall River, was a relic of the Northmen, being the remains of one of those men killed by the natives in the battle with Karlsefne.
		The first document relating to the settlement of Greenland by the Northmen, is taken from the Saga of Eric the Red, as given in Professor Rafn's "Antiquitates Americanae".
	www.blackmask.com /books65c/precolumbian.htm (19421 words)

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		The Northmen began the conquest of Sicily in 1061 with 700 knights led by Roberto the Guiscardo and Roger of Altavilla.
		The Northmen brought back latin and Christianism; in 1097 Roger the Norman was named by the Pope Urbano VI "Gran Conte di Sicilia" and he was entrusted of the "Apostolica Legazia" that is the right to name all the archbishops of Sicily.
		The most important Norman King was Roger II who reigned from 1130 to 1154 and was crowned Emperor in Palermo, on Christmas day in 1130.
	web.tiscali.it /itcalaimo/Francofonte/Sicilianorm2.htm (156 words)

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