beingnorse

Strangers

Strangers they battered with bones; others they compelled to drunkenness with immoderate draughts

2 citations2 sources1 traditions

Strangers they battered with bones; others they compelled to drunkenness with immoderate draughts (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), The Danish History, > Book Five.)

Strangers will ask where stood the town (Heimskringla, Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 34. Of The Armaments Of Svein Ulfson And Harald.)

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

  • attestation: Strangers they battered with bones; others they compelled to drunkenness with immoderate draughts (The Danish History, > Book Five.)

    "Strangers they battered with bones; others they compelled to drunkenness with immoderate draughts, and made them burst."

Heimskringla

  • attestation: Strangers will ask where stood the town (Heimskringla > part in the government with his brother Hardaknut. In the same autumn > 34. Of The Armaments Of Svein Ulfson And Harald.)

    "Strangers will ask where stood the town."