Sentence examples for rollo in from inspiring English sources

Charles III the Simple of France held off his siege of Paris, defeated him near Chartres, and negotiated the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, giving him the part of Neustria that came to be called Normandy; Rollo in return agreed to end his brigandage.

Thus, for the first time since it had been given as a duchy to Rollo in 911, Normandy was directly ruled by the French king.

— Rollo Romig In his recent Letter from Rangoon, George Packer wrote about the once total ban on reading and writing in Burmese prisons.

It expanded greatly throughout the first half of the 20th century, adding rides including a Philadelphia Toboggan Company Rollo Coaster in 1938, one of the company's earliest.

Of course, the usual characters were there: Taloch in an antler head-dress, the archdruid Rollo Maughfling splendid in his trademark white robes and a flat cap and Arthur Pendragon, who claims to be the current incarnation of the once, and future, king.

By Rollo Romig July 25 , 2012In the hours after the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, last week, one word cut through the partisan responses to the massacre, and that word was "evil".

"The water had left swirling patterns of color on some of the transparencies, and the spots of mold on some of the prints looked quite beautiful if you looked past what had been lost," Rollo Romig wrote in a piece about the photographers on this site, in 2010.

Rollo was baptized in 912 but is said to have died a pagan.

Danny's family tree is traced back to a Viking called Rollo, who lived in the 9th century.

In 911 the French Carolingian ruler Charles the Simple allowed a group of Vikings under their leader Rollo to settle in Normandy.

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