The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

behest of the Carolingian and German emperors and kings. The Frankish missionary Ansgar thus visited the country around 830 and ...

gradually. According to the Saxon Widukind, who also described Harald as ‘eager to listen but late to speak’, the cleric Poppo p ...

of Thorvi [Thyre], his mother – that Harald who won the whole of Denmark for himself, and Norway and made the Danes Christian.’ ...

by King Gorm, perhaps as a memorial to Queen Thyre. We do not know where she was buried. In the second phase the site was enlarg ...

The third and last phase was the major expansion in association with the change of religion, which took place five to seven year ...

The bridge lay not far to the south of Jelling. It was made of wood, c. 760 m long and over 5 m wide (Schou Jørgensen 1997 ; for ...

impressive bridge is seen in relation to Jelling as a slightly later follow-up to those kumler that, according to the runestone, ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Albrectsen, E. ( 1994 ) ‘Harald Blåtand og Danmark’, in C. Due-Nielsen et al. (eds) Struktur og Funktion. Festskrif ...

Schou Jørgensen, M. ( 1997 ) ‘Vikingetidsbroen i Ravning Enge – nye undersøgelser’, Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark: 74 – 87. Skovga ...

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT ( 1 ) CNUT THE GREAT AND HIS EMPIRE Niels Lund I n a letter of 1027 Cnut (Eng. Canute, ON Knútr) styles hims ...

Roskilde for conspiring with King Anund Jakob of Sweden and St Olav of Norway to overthrow Cnut in Denmark and replace him by Ha ...

of his stepfather Sven Forkbeard, whom he had acknowledged as his overlord, Olof Skötkonung began to pursue a more independent p ...

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE THE EMERGENCE OF SWEDEN Thomas Lindkvist I n 1442 the second version of the law code of the realm of Sweden w ...

Scandinavian kingdoms, became integrated into the wider cultural and political community of western Christianity. New forms of l ...

Such activities are also connected with Erik Segersäll (‘the Victorious’) at the end of the tenth century. About him we have mor ...

there were dynastic competitions mainly between the descendants of King Sverker I and King Erik until the beginning of the thirt ...

called the ledung. The ledung was described in a legal sense in the late thirteenth century as the fleet under royal command and ...

In Birger’s and his son’s reigns, especially Magnus Birgersson’s ( 1275 – 90 ), the political structure became more stabilised a ...

taxation and using the material resources were formalised and restricted (Rosén 1939 : 331 – 43 ; Schück 2003 ). Sweden was then ...

INDEX Old-norse letters: Þ, þ is a voiceless th, pronounced as in thing. Ð, ð is a voiced dh, pronounced as in these. O ̨, o ̨ i ...