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152 THE NORSEMEN GO TO RUSSIA

But the passion of conquest was strong in the blood of his children. Across the channel, only a few hours away from the European mainland, they could see the white cliffs and the green fields of England. Poor England had passed through difficult days. For two hundred years it had been a Roman colony. After the Romans left, it had been conquered by the

THE NORMANS LOOK ACROSS THE CHANNEL