tailieunhanh - The A to Z of the Vikings 12

The A to Z of the Vikings 12. This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the Vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the impact the Vikings had on the areas where they traveled and settled. There is a chronological table, detailed and annotated bibliographies for different themes and geographical locations, and an introduction discussing the major events and developments of the Viking age | 88 EMUND and following his death Cnut I the Great in 1017. She had five children three by thelred and two by Cnut and two of these Harthac-nut and Edward I the Confessor became kings of England. During Cnut s reign Emma seems to have enjoyed considerable status and power appearing frequently in charter witness-lists and she is famously depicted alongside Cnut presenting a gold cross to the New Minster in Winchester in the Liber Vitae New Minster Register British Library MS Stowe 944 f6r . However after Cnut s death and during the brief rule of Harold Harefoot Emma was driven into exile in Flanders under the protection of Count Baldwin. Harold s death in 1040 saw her return to England with her son Harthacnut now king of England and for two years she enjoyed a similar degree of power and public prominence as she had under Cnut s rule. During this period she commissioned the Encomium Emmae Reginae and an image in the only extant manuscript of this text shows her enthroned receiving this work with her sons Harthacnut and Edward I looking on. Despite the accession of another of her sons Edward I the Confessor upon Harthacnut s death in 1042 Emma s political career was at an end Edward deprived her of her lands and treasure and she lived out her life in relative obscurity in Winchester. She was buried alongside Cnut in the Old Minster in Winchester. EMUND. King of the Svear see Svealand in the second half of the 11th century. Emund was the son of Olof Skotkonung by a concubine according to Adam of Bremen and was the half brother of Anund Jakob who he succeeded around the year 1050. Adam s attitude to Emund is hostile describing him as the Bad although sometimes also as Gamular meaning the Old . The reason for this probably lies in both Emund s birth and in his appointment of a bishop Osmund of irregular status a vagabond who did not recognize the primacy of the mission of Hamburg-Bremen. According to Adam Emund was succeed by his nephew Stenkil. ENCOMIUM EMMAE REGINAE. .