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Otto Christofsson Duke of Loland and Estland [11645] 24. Died: Aft 1347 General Notes: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal20468
Jun 8, 2022 · The agreement must have been kept a secret, because Erik VI rearmed in Scania and Småland by concentrating troops and supplies in the castle of Örkeljunga and then named Christopher commander. When Duke Erik Magnusson approached, Christopher surrendered the castle to him after a brief and halfhearted fight.
Modern place names are Funen, Zealand, Fehmarn, Als, Falster, Lolland, Langeland, Bornholm and Hven (or Ven). Here and elsewhere it is evident that Rogers did not follow Ortelius's naming of the isles; rather, he actually travelled to most of them throughout July and early August 1588, as documented in Behrend, ‘En dagbog’.
With the transfer in 1917 of the Danish West Indies to the United States, Cornelius opted to retain his Danish nationality and reside in Naskov, a city in Lolland, a Danish island adjacent to Copenhagen .
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The Viking Age began with the attack on the Monastery of St. Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne 8. of June in the year 793. This section will examine the early Viking Age until Archbishop Unni of Hamburg some years before 936 visited Denmark and found Worm, whom we believe was Gorm the Old, on the throne. He was the first well-documented king of...
Reconstruction of the Ladby ship in full scale next to the museum at Ladby south of Kerteminde. Photo Jiang Li. The Viking ship as a ship type is the result of more than a thousand years of development. During the more than 1,300 years ago since the Hjortspring Boat thousands of ships have been built, most of which have had small or large details t...
In Denmark itself are no reasonably reliable documentary sources on the early Viking time history apart from brief runic inscriptions; but in the Western European countries, there are many reports of Danes' and Vikings' whereabouts; For example, in the Frankish Annals, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Vita Anskarii and especially in the chronicle of the...
Incomplete and probably erroneous outline of the royal line for the early Viking Age in Denmark. For most of the kings, it is stated that they were kings of Denmark. However, we do not know for sure, what Denmark included at this time. Erik I and Erik II (830) are designated as kings of Jutland, Chnob, Gurd and Sigerich were possibly local kings ar...
Before the year 870 the Great Heathen Army conquered first York, then the rest of Northumbria and East Anglia. A few years later they took over the eastern part of the kingdom of Mercia. Maybe it was their plan to conquer all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but they encountered determined resistance from King Alfred of Wessex and his allies. They tried t...
Dudo of Saint-Quentin recounts that the founder of Normandy, Rollo, was a son of "a very old and very rich man in the land of the Dacians that had an incredible number of warriors gathered around him."Richer of Reims mentions his father's name as Catillus, most likely Ketil. After his father's death, Rollo and his brother were attacked by Dacia's k...
The Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan met a people on the Volga, which he called Rus. Much indicate that they were Scandinavian Vikings, who traded on the Volga. An excellent drawings that are very loyal to Ibn Fadlan description of Rus - from kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com - unfortunately, unknown artist. Ibn Fadlan reports: "I saw the ar-Rusiya, when they ...
The Isle of Man and the outer and inner Hebrides was ruled by the Norwegian king until 1266, and Shetland and Orkney belonged to the Scandinavian Union kings until 1468. The islands north and west of Scotland were completely colonized by the Vikings. It is said that after Harald Fairhair's decisive victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which accordi...
The contacts between Scandinavia and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England spanned back to 400's, even back to Angles' conquest of the country. The Danish archæologist Jørgen Jensen writes: "Close dynastic relations, family relations and other alliance building measures that's what the tombs in the Sutton Hoo, Vendel and Valsgarde and a number of Fra...
Danmark i Europa 750-1300 Af Nils Hybel Vikingetogternes begyndelse Fortidens Jelling Dannevirke Wikipedia. Ansgars Levned Heimskringla. The Cambridge History of Scandinavia Prehistory I Knut Hell - Google Books. The Annals of St. Bertin Janet L. Nelson - Google Books Full text - Adam af Bremen och hans skildring af Nordeuropas lander och folk Inte...
Hertug Af Estland Og Lolland Otto Christoffersøn 1312 - 1346 (34 år) Har 6 forfædre men ingen efterkommere i dette stamtræ.
What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art (c. 1200–1515) to answer this
