text:  The Danes who ravaged our coasts and gave a race of princes to England; the Normans from whom are descended our line of sovereigns and many of our noble and ancient families--the Normans who established themselves in Sicily and the Warrhag or Varangians who made their leader Rurik a sovereign over the ancient Sclavonic republic of Novgorod and gave their own distinctive appellation of Russ to the people and to the country they conquered were all men of the same race the same habits and the same character