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16 MARGARET OF NORWAY ,
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Her enemies accused lier of having poisoned Mm to gratify lier own ambitionbut they "were believed only by the vulgar . It would
indeed be difficult , , in this case , to assign any adequate motive for so base and unnatural a deed ; but it were easy to show many reasons
why she should desire him to live . In the first place , as may be proved strong affections from , man , y and passa we ges have of . her no grounds life , Margaret for believing was a woman that her of
heart was closed against her own and only child . In the second * ca place te , and King almost Olaf monastic was no obst in his acle tastes to her he greatness had never . cared Naturall to assume y
deliher any , share . in Thirdl the government no ¦ woman , and had therefore ever , reigned could in not either have king been dom in , y
and way Margaret well , knew how unwilling the rough Northmen would be their to accept prejudices her as but their she soverei miht gn also . She fail mi — g and ht succeed the latter in overcoming was by far
peasantry the more likel persisted y . , Still in their , in the unjust g face susp of icions these , facts and , as the we Norweg shall pre ian
-, sently see , carried their credulity to such a pitch as to endanger the safety of the throne , full fifteen years after King Olaf ' _s death .
said Nor that was she thi had s the spared only absurd his life report , but circulated confined him at the in time a . solitary Some
p the lace Franciscans whence he could to thi never s day escape contend to claim that the Olaf crown being again neither ; and
, of poisoned heaven nor alone imprisoned , and died , relinquished in the retirement his hig of h estate an Italian for the convent love
many No years sooner after were . the tidings of the King ' s death known in
Denmark , than the provincial deputies met to discuss the * question of succession . And now Queen Margaret ' s policy bore fruit , and stood
her in good service . She had partisans among the representatives the of every clergy grade whom , — she among had the made noble independent s whom she , among had honored the peasantry , among
whom she had compassionated . They could not , it is true , relinwithout quish all bring their ing old fo prejudices rward some at objections a blow , nor and elect sti a pulating female soverei for some gn
few conditions h . The ; Scanian but they deputies did elect and her the in the _representatives end , and that of was the
enoug Danish provinces then drew up an act by which they delegated the daug supreme hter authority of Waldemar to her , or alone the mother , not simp of Olaf ly because ; but with " her she because mild was and the the
people loved her , and the States were satisfied j udicious In Norway government however . '' she had some osition to encounter . More
wedded to the , customs , and traditions opp of their forefathers than were their neighbours the Danes , these sturdy sons of Odin could forei with
diffition First culty to of make which all they up she required their would minds not that listen to she submit should for a moment to marry a woman . ; but Then that and they was a urged a condi gner her - .
16 Margaret Of Norway ,
16 MARGARET OF NORWAY ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/16/
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