Hrolf

[ hrolf ]

noun

1. Rollo ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

In 912 Charles the Simple ceded to their leader, Hrolf, a territory of which the capital was Rouen, and which became known as Normandy—the land of the Normans.

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No Homer sang these Norse Sea-kings; but Agamemnon’s was a small audacity, and of small fruit in the world, to some of them;—to Hrolf’s of Normandy, for instance!

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They settled their trouble, and thereupon Hrolf married Goe, and Nor married Hrolf’s sister, settled in the land and called it after his own name, Norvegr, that is, Norway.

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Hrolf, like Guthrum, was baptized, received the king's daughter in marriage, and became his vassal for the territory which now took the name of "the Northman's land" or Normandy.

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He became Hrolf's most noted warrior, but neither sought nor attained to any other distinction.

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