Sveyn I Forkbeard Quotes


Danes should enjoy so much consideration in Norway, that one witness of them should invalidate ten of Northmen [Norwegians].


Context

The Norwegians were outraged as they had allowed Sven to depose their king under the assumption that the tyranny would be over. But high taxation and discriminatory laws like this produced dissidence over a virtual occupation.


Citations

Sveyn I Forkbeard, 965-1014, King of Denmark & Norway, King of Britain (for a short time), King Sveyn’s Laws

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