title: Saga of the Jomsvikings
author:  Lee M. Hollander 
description: In the year A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were were were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Like good war correspondence of the present, they went home after the battle to relate what they had seen and heard; and, being poets as well as reporters, no doubt they seasoned their versions well with imagination.
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  # In Bohemia with Du Maurier
  
  
  ### Felix Moscheles
  
  
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  IN BOHEMIA WITH DU MAURIER
  
  
  THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF REMINISCENCES
  
  
  BY
  
  
  FELIX MOSCHELES
  
  
  WITH 63 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
  
  
  BY
  
  
  G. DU MAURIER
  
  
  ILLUSTRATING THE ARTIST'S LIFE IN THE FIFTIES
  
  
  LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN
  
  
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