Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . 3 Haco VII., the Swedes obtaiued the Norwe-gian throne, and held it through two succes-sive reigng. The country was merged firstwith Sweden and afterwards with Denmark,and so complete was the national abasementunder foreign rule that the people lost theirlanguage, and spoke thenceforth a brokenform of Swedish anil Danish. The marriageof Haco VIII. with
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . 3 Haco VII., the Swedes obtaiued the Norwe-gian throne, and held it through two succes-sive reigng. The country was merged firstwith Sweden and afterwards with Denmark,and so complete was the national abasementunder foreign rule that the people lost theirlanguage, and spoke thenceforth a brokenform of Swedish anil Danish. The marriageof Haco VIII. with the daughter of Walde-mar of Denmark has already been Haco reigned until 1380, when he wassucceeded bv his son. Olaf III., as ruler to do for Norway what the Normans did forSaxon England after the Conquest. The na-tive nobility was reduced to beggary and de-stroyed. It appears that of the three stateswhich were amalgamated under the Union ofCalmar, Norway suffered most in her local in-terests, and it was not until the sixteenthcentury that she began to revive from herlong and enforced lethargy. The history of Denmaek during the four-teenth and fifteenth centuries pi-esents fewpoints of interest. She was iniixirtant to Me-. DEFEAT OF THE KHAN OF KAZAN. of the maternal kingdom as well as the two kingdoms were ruled asone. Olaf gave place to his daughter Marga-ret the Great, under whom, as already nar-rated, the Union of Calmar was effected. Itwas in the terms of this great compact thatthe three kingdoms of the North .should retaintheir respective laws and usages under a com-mon government. It happened, however,that the Norwegians were unable to do weakened by ])revious disasters, thelocal institutions of that country gave wayunder pressure of foreign influence. TheDanish nobles came over in such numbers as diseval Europe rather for what she sent outthan for what she retained. For it was fromher borders that most of the sea-kings, rovers
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