Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14597521830)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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62 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. mixed race, if not positively Germanic,both in origin and evolution. The earliest authentic references tothe Norwegian tribes are found in theEarly Norse his- writings of Jordauis, whotorians; Lapps flourished at the middle of and Finns m Norway. the sixth ccntury. He is the first historian of the Gothic race.But lone before this there were native Sweden and Norway, and pressing backthe Lapps and Finns into the high coun-tries where they are found at the presenttime. The date of this Teutonic migrationis not known. Ethnologists, though,incline to the opinion that it was afterrather than before the beginning of theChristian era. It is a debated question
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DA\O-N0R\VEGIAN FLEET OF TENTH CENTURY. singers and chroniclers who preservedin Norse the legendary history of therace. It is believed that the primitivepopulation of Scandinavia was made upof Lapps and Finns. At any rate,traces of these peoples are found at thepresent time very far south of the coun-tries of their occupancy. At a certainprehistoric epoch these races began togive away under the pressure of theTeutonic immigrants taking their courseacross the Baltic, working up through as to how the first people—ancestors asthey were of the Scandinavian race—made their way into the ^ Incoming of the countries now called by primitive Scan-, 1 . 1 , , 1 • • dinavians. their name, but the opinionabove advanced, that they came fromthe South rather than from the Northernparts, has been virtually accepted as cor-rect. It is not needed in this connec-tion to go over the arguments whichhave been advanced in support of thishypothesis, or of that relative to the THE NORSE.—NOR IVEGIANS