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" Scandinavian society, without trade, manufacture, or commerce, land was the only wealth, its ownership the sole foundation of power, privilege, or dignity. As no man could win or hold possession without the strong arm to defend it, every landowner was... "
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland ... - Page xvii
edited by - 1859 - 129 pages
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The Orkneyinga Saga

Orkneyinga saga - 1873 - 422 pages
..."In the primitive form of Scandinavian society," says Balfour, in his Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs, "land was the only wealth, its ownership the sole...tended his own hay harvest, and Sweyn of Gairsay and Thorkel Fostri swept the coasts of Britain or Ireland while the crops which they and their rovers had...
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The Cathedrals and Abbeys of Presbyterian Scotland

M. E. Leicester Addis - Abbeys - 1901 - 254 pages
...for us who think of wealth under the medium of stocks, shares, and bonds. To our Saxon forefathers, "land was the only wealth, its ownership the sole foundation of power, privilege or dignity." Many an inheritor of these ancient acres is now spoken of commiseratingly as " land-poor.") Reconciliation...
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