Swedes

1. Ragnar's sons commanded that their brother had been avenged and that the Swedes should be spared pillaging. (Web site)

Greek Cities

1. The same year, the Bulgarians invaded and reached down to the north Peloponnese, pillaging many Greek cities. (Web site)

Russian Cities

1. It included both pillaging and bloody massacres in Russian cities. (Web site)

Way

1. Before his death in 1227, Chinnggis Khan, pillaging and burning cities along the way, had reached western Azarbaijan in Iran. (Web site)

People

1. Liu Bang forbid his men from killing civilians and pillaging the cities he conquered, in order to win the support and trust of the people. (Web site)

Rome

1. There was a breathing-space of sixteen years, and then the Lombards drew near to Rome, pillaging and destroying the neighbouring regions. (Web site)

Goths

1. People think the Goths loved pillaging, were fiercely Pagan, were primitive and sought to destroy Rome.

Vikings

1. No small feat considering the rest of Europe and Britain were paying huge sums of Dane Gold to keep the Vikings from pillaging their cities and churches. (Web site)
2. The Vikings continued to tactically help their Breton allies by devastating Frankish areas under the Carolingians with pillaging raids. (Web site)

Raiding

1. For raiding and pillaging, Odin, the God of the berserker rage, was a much better patron than Tyr, the God of honorable battle.

Captives

1. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control of Cyprus, Turks attacked the Karpasia Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery.

Father

1. After having avenged his father together with his brothers, he went pillaging in Gardariki.

City

1. When the Vandals under Genseric occupied the city of Rome, he persuaded the invaders to desist from pillaging the city and harming its inhabitants. (Web site)

Plundering

1. One who commits piracy by engaging in robbery, pillaging, or plundering at sea is known as a pirate.

Wallingford

1. He eventually crossed the River Thames at Wallingford, pillaging the land as he went. (Web site)

Danes

1. At the end of the year sudden tidings came that the Saxons and Danes, as was their habit, were pillaging the lands of Burgundy.

Northumbria

1. Despite the pillaging of the kingdom, Viking rule brought lucrative trade to Northumbria, especially at their capital Jórvík, (York). (Web site)
2. When king Ella of Northumbria learns of the pillaging army, he musters an overwhelming force and defeats Ragnar's army.

Killing

1. In Gesta Danorum, book 7, Saxo Grammaticus tells of a Gunnar, "the bravest of the Swedes" who invaded Norway and relished in killing rather than pillaging. (Web site)
2. Moreover, if an attacking army had a reputation of killing and pillaging regardless of a surrender, then other cities' defensive efforts would be redoubled.

Raping

1. Raynald's forces attacked Cyprus, ravaging the island, and raping and pillaging the inhabitants. (Web site)
2. The Goths, who were settled in Phrygia by the Emperor Theodosius (379-395 A.D.) soon thereafter revolted, raping and pillaging throughout Asia Minor. (Web site)

Burning

1. He assembled the Goths, and marched straight on Constantinople, burning and pillaging as he went. (Web site)
2. When this demand was refused, the poor peasants revolted against the shaykhs of Mount Lebanon, pillaging the shaykhs' land and burning their homes. (Web site)

Looting

1. However, the unruly crusaders refused to listen and began looting and pillaging the local inhabitants, who were all Christian.
2. Despite Byzantine accounts of "pillaging" and "looting", it is possible that many indigenous peoples voluntarily assimilated with the Slavs. (Web site)
3. Unlike the pillaging and looting encouraged in the armies of Tilly and Wallenstein, the Swedish army was banned from any action against civilians.

Pillaging

1. According to versions H and U, Arngrim went pillaging to Gardariki and met its king Svafrlami, who was in possession of Tyrfing at the moment.
2. One summer when Ragnar is pillaging in the Baltic region, his sons Eric and Agnar came into lake Mälaren.
3. Pyrrhus then marched almost all the way to Rome, pillaging as he went, and was finally met by another Roman army two days march from the city itself. (Web site)

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1. Looting
2. Raping
3. Weapons > Sword > Swords > Tyrfing
4. Literature > Mythology > Norse Mythology > Arngrim
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