The Voyage of Sigurd

A company of English warriors who would not live in England under the Normans gathered three hundred and fifty ships, and led by Sigurd sailed away south in search of a new life. They buccaneered their way through the Mediterranean, and then, hearing of battle in Constantinople, sailed up to the City just in time to deliver it from attack.

Emperor Alexius invited his deliverers to be his personal bodyguard, but Sigurd and many others wanted their own realms to govern. Alexius told them of a land across the Black Sea formerly under Roman rule which they could have if they could retake it. They did, and called it England, naming their towns after places back home.

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