Jomsborg, a stronghold at the mouth of the Oder, became, in
the later part of the 10th and early part of the 11th
centuries, a noted fastness of the piratical heathen Danes,
who found there "a secure refuge from the new religion and the
civilization it brought with it," which their country was then
submitting to. They founded at Jomsborg "a state to which no
man might belong save on proof of courage, where no woman
might enter within the walls, and where all booty was in
common."
_J. R. Green,
The Conquest of England,
pages 366-367._
"The impregnable castle of a certain body corporate, or
'Sea-Robbery Association (limited),' which, for some
generations, held the Baltic in terror, and plundered far
beyond the Belt—in the ocean itself, in Flanders and the
opulent trading havens there,—above all, in opulent anarchic
England, which, for forty years from about this time, was the
pirates' Goshen; and yielded, regularly every summer, slaves,
danegelt, and miscellaneous plunder, like no other country
Jomsburg or the viking-world had ever known."
_T. Carlyle,
Early Kings of Norway,
chapter 5._
The pirate-nest at Jomsborg was broken up, about the middle of
the tenth century, by Magnus the Good, of Norway.
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