Dorn

Role: king · First appears: Book Two · Part 1

Life events

• Dorn ordered the destruction of places he could not protect and left them open to the enemy.(Book Two · Part 1)
  • “Having said this, he wasted all the places which he saw would be hard to protect, distrusting his power to guard them, and he so far forestalled the ruthlessness of the foe in ravaging his own land, that he left nothing untouched which could be seized by those who came after.”
• Dorn shut most of his forces in a strong town and let the enemy blockade it.(Book Two · Part 1)
  • “Then he shut up the greater part of his forces in a town of undoubted strength, and suffered the enemy to blockade him.”

Book Two · Part 1

• enemies with Frode (son of Hadding) “The money which the King found made him rich; and with this supply he approached in his fleet the region of the Kurlanders, whose king Dorn, dreading a perilous war, is said to have made a speech of the following kind to his soldiers:”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.