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81 relations: Adam of Bremen, Anund Jacob, Archbishop of York, Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden, Æthelred the Unready, Óláfsdrápa sænska, Óttarr svarti, Øresund, Świętosława, Battle of Svolder, Björn Eriksson, Bjørn Stallare, Bohuslän, Bolesław I the Brave, Bruno of Querfurt, Christianization of Scandinavia, Cnut the Great, Earl, Edla, Edmund Ironside, Eiríkr Hákonarson, Emund the Old, England, Eric Anundsson, Eric the Victorious, Estonia, Estrid of the Obotrites, Geats, Gunnlaugr Ormstunga, Haakon the Good, Hälsingland, Hjalti Skeggiason, House of Munsö, Husaby, Iceland, Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, Jämtland, Kiev, Kungahälla, Latvia, Lawspeaker, Lüchow-Dannenberg, List of English monarchs, List of Swedish monarchs, Mälaren, Norway, Olaf II of Norway, Olaf Tryggvason, Old Norse religion, Poland, ..., Pomerania, Ragnvald Ulfsson, Siegfried, Sigfrid of Sweden, Sigrid the Haughty, Sigtuna, Sigvatr Þórðarson, Skagul Toste, Skald, Skara, Småland, Snorri Sturluson, Sport, Stockholm, Stones of Mora, Sweden, Swedes (Germanic tribe), Sweyn Forkbeard, Sweyn Haakonsson, Temple at Uppsala, Thing (assembly), Torgny the Lawspeaker, Trøndelag, Uppland, Uppsala, Värend, Västergötland, Västgötalagen, Växjö, Växjö Lake, Yaroslav the Wise. Expand index (31 more) »
Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen) was a German medieval chronicler.
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Anund Jacob
Anund Jacob or James, Swedish: Anund Jakob was King of Sweden from 1022 until around 1050.
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Archbishop of York
The Archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden
Astrid Olofsdotter (Norwegian: Astrid Olavsdatter; English: Aestrith) (died 1035) was the Queen Consort of King Olav II of Norway.
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Æthelred the Unready
Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd,;Different spellings of this king’s name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form Æþelræd. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death.
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Óláfsdrápa sænska
Óláfsdrápa sænska was a skaldic poem composed by Óttarr svarti in honour of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung.
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Óttarr svarti
Óttarr svarti (Óttarr the Black) was an 11th-century Icelandic skald.
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Øresund
Øresund or Öresund (Øresund,; Öresund), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden).
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Świętosława
Świętosława was a Polish princess, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland and Dobrawa of Bohemia, and sister of Boleslaw I of Poland.
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Battle of Svolder
The Battle of Svolder (Svold or Swold) was a naval battle fought in September 999 or 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his enemies.
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Björn Eriksson
Björn (traditionally ruled 882–932) was the father of Olof (II) Björnsson and Eric the Victorious, and he was the grandfather of Styrbjörn the Strong, according to the Hervarar saga and Harald Fairhair's saga.
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Bjørn Stallare
Bjørn Stallare (died July 1030) was an 11th-century Norwegian diplomat and civil servant during the reign of King Olaf II of Norway.
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Bohuslän
Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast.
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Bolesław I the Brave
Bolesław I the Brave (Bolesław I Chrobry, Boleslav Chrabrý; 967 – 17 June 1025), less often known as Bolesław I the Great (Bolesław I Wielki), was Duke of Poland from 992 to 1025, and the first King of Poland in 1025.
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Bruno of Querfurt
Saint Bruno of Querfurt (974 – 14 February 1009 AD), also known as Brun and Boniface, was a missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.
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Christianization of Scandinavia
The Christianization of Scandinavia as well as other Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, took place between the 8th and the 12th centuries.
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Cnut the Great
Cnut the GreatBolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (Leiden, 2009) (Cnut se Micela, Knútr inn ríki. Retrieved 21 January 2016. – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute—whose father was Sweyn Forkbeard (which gave him the patronym Sweynsson, Sveinsson)—was King of Denmark, England and Norway; together often referred to as the North Sea Empire.
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Earl
An earl is a member of the nobility.
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Edla
Edla, traditionally called Edla, Duchess of Venden (Edla, hertiginna av Venden) (10th-11th centuries), was a Slavic Viking age woman.
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Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside (c.990 – 30 November 1016), also known as Edmund II, was King of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016.
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Eiríkr Hákonarson
Eric Håkonsson (960s – 1020s) was Earl of Lade, Governor of Norway and Earl of Northumbria.
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Emund the Old
Emund the Old or Edmund (Swedish: Emund den gamle, Old Swedish: Æmunðær gamlæ, Æmunðær gammal, Æmunðær slemæ) was King of Sweden from c. 1050 to c. 1060.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eric Anundsson
Eric Anundsson or Eymundsson (traditionally died 882) was a Swedish king who ruled during the 9th century.
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Eric the Victorious
Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll; about 945? – about 995) was a Swedish monarch as of around 970.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Estrid of the Obotrites
Estrid (or Astrid) of the Obotrites (c. 979 – 1035) was a Viking age Swedish queen and West Slavic princess, married to Olof Skötkonung, the King of Sweden, c. 1000–1022, mother of King Anund Jacob of Sweden and the Kievan Rus' saint and grand princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter.
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Geats
The Geats (gēatas; gautar; götar), sometimes called Goths, were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited italic ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden.
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Gunnlaugr Ormstunga
Gunnlaugr Ormstunga (i.e. "Serpent-Tongue") was an Icelandic poet.
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Haakon the Good
Haakon Haraldsson (c. 920–961), also Haakon the Good (Old Norse: Hákon góði, Norwegian: Håkon den gode) and Haakon Adalsteinfostre (Old Norse: Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri, Norwegian: Håkon Adalsteinsfostre), was the king of Norway from 934 to 961.
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Hälsingland
Hälsingland, sometimes referred to as Helsingia in English, is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden.
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Hjalti Skeggiason
Hjalti Skeggiason was an Icelandic chieftain who supported Gizurr the White for the introduction of Christianity in Iceland, on the Althing in 1000.
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House of Munsö
The House of Munsö is one of the names of a protohistoric Swedish dynasty.
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Husaby
Husaby, near Kinnekulle, is a village belonging to Götene Municipality in the province of Västergötland, Sweden.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden
Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden, also known as Irene, Anna and St.
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Jämtland
Jämtland (Norwegian: Jemtland,; Latin: Iemptia) or Jamtland is a historical province (landskap) in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe.
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Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.
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Kungahälla
Kungahälla (Konghelle, Konungahella) was a medieval Norwegian settlement in southern Bohuslän at a site which is located in Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County in Sweden.
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Latvia
Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
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Lawspeaker
A lawspeaker or lawman (Swedish: lagman, Old Swedish: laghmaþer or laghman, Danish: lovsigemand, Norwegian: lagmann, Icelandic: lög(sögu)maður, Faroese: løgmaður, Finnish: laamanni) is a unique Scandinavian legal office.
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Lüchow-Dannenberg
Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany, which is usually referred to as Hanoverian Wendland (Hannoversches Wendland) or Wendland.
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List of English monarchs
This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England.
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List of Swedish monarchs
This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden, including regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union, up to the present time.
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Mälaren
Mälaren, historically referred to as Lake Malar in English, is the third-largest freshwater lake in Sweden (after Vänern and Vättern).
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Olaf II of Norway
Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – 29 July 1030), later known as St.
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Olaf Tryggvason
Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000.
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Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion developed from early Germanic religion during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic people separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.
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Poland
Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.
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Pomerania
Pomerania (Pomorze; German, Low German and North Germanic languages: Pommern; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland.
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Ragnvald Ulfsson
Ragnvald Ulfsson the Old (beginning 11th century) was a jarl of Västergötland or Östergötland and was married to a sister of King Olav Tryggvason.
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Siegfried
Siegfried - is a German language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements sig "victory" and frithu "protection, peace".
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Sigfrid of Sweden
Sigfrid of Sweden (Saint) Old Swedish: Sigfridaer etc.
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Sigrid the Haughty
Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigríð Storråda, is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark.
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Sigtuna
Sigtuna is a locality situated in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 8,444 inhabitants in 2010.
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Sigvatr Þórðarson
Sigvatr Þórðarson (Sighvatr Þórðarson, Sigvat Tordarson) or Sigvat the Skald (995-1045) was an Icelandic skald.
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Skagul Toste
Skoglar Toste or Skoglar Tosti (there are several variations) was a legendary chieftain from the Swedish province of West Götaland.
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Skald
The term skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet"), is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.
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Skara
Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013.
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Småland
Småland is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden.
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Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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Sport
Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.
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Stones of Mora
The Stones of Mora is a historic location in Knivsta where Swedish kings were elected until 1457.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Swedes (Germanic tribe)
The Swedes (svear; Old Norse: svíar / suar (probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own ";Bandle, Oskar. 2002. The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. 2002. P.391 Old English: Sweonas) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes. The first author who wrote about the tribe is Tacitus, who in his Germania, from 98 CE mentions the Suiones. Jordanes, in the sixth century, mentions Suehans and Suetidi. According to early sources such as the sagas, especially Heimskringla, the Swedes were a powerful tribe whose kings claimed descendence from the god Freyr. During the Viking Age they constituted the basis of the Varangian subset, the Vikings that travelled eastwards (see Rus' people).
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Sweyn Forkbeard
Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg; Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 960 – 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark during 986–1014.
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Sweyn Haakonsson
Sweyn Haakonsson (Old Norse: Sveinn Hákonarson, Svein Håkonsson) (died c. 1016) was an earl of the house of Hlaðir and co-ruler of Norway from 1000 to c. 1015.
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Temple at Uppsala
The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in the ancient Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.
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Thing (assembly)
A thing, also known as Alþing, was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers.
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Torgny the Lawspeaker
Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker (Old Icelandic: Þorgnýr lögmaðr, Swedish: Torgny Lagman) is the name of one of at least three generations of lawspeakers by the name Þorgnýr, who appear in the Heimskringla by the Icelandic scholar and chieftain Snorri Sturluson, and in the less known Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa and Hróa þáttr heimska.
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Trøndelag
Trøndelag is a county in the central part of Norway.
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Uppland
Uppland is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.
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Uppsala
Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
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Värend
Värend was in the Middle Ages the most populous of the constituent "small lands" of the province Småland, in Sweden.
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Västergötland
Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
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Västgötalagen
Västgötalagen or the Westrogothic law is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws.
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Växjö
Växjö is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden.
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Växjö Lake
Växjö lake (Växjösjön) is a lake in Växjö Municipality, Sweden.
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Yaroslav the Wise
Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of Rus, known as Yaroslav the Wise or Iaroslav the Wise (tr; Jaroslav Mudryj; Jaroslav Mudryj; Jarizleifr Valdamarsson;; Iaroslaus Sapiens; c. 978 – 20 February 1054) was thrice grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kiev, uniting the two principalities for a time under his rule.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Skötkonung
