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Sigvatr Þórðarson

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Sigvatr Þórðarson (Sighvatr Þórðarson, Sigvat Tordarson) or Sigvat the Skald (995-1045) was an Icelandic skald. [1]

22 relations: Anund Jacob, Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden, Austrfararvísur, Óláfs saga helga, Battle of Nesjar, Bersöglisvísur, Brunlanes, Cnut the Great, Erling Skjalgsson, Great Britain, Heimskringla, Iceland, Kvæði, Lausavísa, Magnus the Good, Norway, Olaf II of Norway, Skald, Sweden, Sweyn Haakonsson, Tryggvaflokkr, Tryggvi the Pretender.

Anund Jacob

Anund Jacob or James, Swedish: Anund Jakob was King of Sweden from 1022 until around 1050.

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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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Austrfararvísur

Austrfararvísur (English:"East Journey Verses") is a skaldic poem composed by the Icelandic skald Sigvat Tordarson.

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Óláfs saga helga

Óláfs saga helga or the Saga of St.

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Battle of Nesjar

Battle of Nesjar (Slaget ved Nesjar) was a sea battle off the coast of Norway in 1016.

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Bersöglisvísur

Bersöglisvísur (English:"Plain-speaking verses") is a skaldic poem composed by the Icelandic skald Sigvatr Þórðarson.

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Brunlanes

Brunlanes is a parish and former municipality within Larvik municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.

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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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Erling Skjalgsson

Erling Skjalgsson (died 1028) was a Norwegian political leader of the late 10th and early 11th century.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Heimskringla

Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.

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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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Kvæði

Kvæði (Kvaedi; at kvøða: "to sing a tune or kvæði"; kvæði also means verse in Icelandic, also sometimes used to mean stanza) are the old ballads of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by the Faroese dance.

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Lausavísa

In Old Norse poetry and later Icelandic poetry, a lausavísa (pl. lausavísur) is a single stanza composition, or a set of stanzas unconnected by narrative or thematic continuity.

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Magnus the Good

Magnus Olafsson (Old Norse: Magnús Óláfsson, Norwegian and Danish: Magnus Olavsson; c. 1024 – 25 October 1047), better known as Magnus the Good (Old Norse: Magnús góði, Norwegian and Danish: Magnus den gode), was the King of Norway from 1035 and King of Denmark from 1042, ruling over both countries until his death in 1047.

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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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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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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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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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Tryggvaflokkr

Tryggvaflokkr (the "Flokkr-poem of Tryggvi") was an Old Norse poem about Tryggve the Pretender, an 11th-century Viking chieftain who purported to be the son of Olaf Tryggvason and tried to conquer Norway in 1033.

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Tryggvi the Pretender

Tryggvi "the Pretender" (Old Norse Tryggvi Ólafsson, Norwegian Tryggve Olavsson) was a Viking chieftain who lived in the early eleventh century, and came from "west across the sea" (probably from the Norse settlements in England and Ireland).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigvatr_Þórðarson

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