... and merchants. The Scandinavian countries had developed an early and active trade with the other lands borderingon the Baltic and North seas, and England under Danish influence was drawn into ... heldtoward their tenants. Sometimes these subtenants granted land to others below them, and over these the lastlandlord also exercised feudal rights, and so on till the actual occupants and ... century the Danes or Northmen, the barbarous and heathen inhabitants of the islands and coast-lands of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, began to make rapidforays into the districts of England which...