tailieunhanh - The A to Z of the Vikings 15

The A to Z of the Vikings 15. 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 | 118 HAMBURG-BREMEN known for certain about Halfdan and his reign although he appears to have inherited control of the southern province of Agder at the age of 18 and to have acquired Vestfold Romerike Sogn Hadeland by force. Snorri Sturluson s saga about Halfdan is short includes many dreams and premonitions and lacks any skaldic verse to substantiate the prose narrative. Halfdan is said to have had two wives called Ragnhild and two sons called Harald the first of these sons died but the second Harald Fine-Hair became king of Norway after his father s death. Halfdan is said to have died at the age of 40 and to have been buried in the province of Ringerike. HAMBURG-BREMEN. See ADAM OF BREMEN ANSGAR ST. HARALD BLUE-TOOTH ON Haraldr blatand d. c. 987 . King of Denmark and son of Gorm the Old and Thyre. Harald ruled from the dynastic seat his father had established in Jelling Jutland Denmark. On a rune-stone that Harald raised in Jelling he claimed to have united Denmark under one king to have converted the Danes to Christianity and to have also won control of Norway which he then ruled through his Norwegian ally Hakon Jarl of Lade . Widukind s Saxon Chronicle preserves an account of Harald s conversion c. 965 attributing it to the German missionary Poppo who held a piece of red-hot iron in his hands to prove to Harald the superior power of his religion. However there were also sound political reasons for Harald s conversion not least the German emperor Otto I the Great who threatened to launch a crusade against his northern neighbor. Following Otto s death in 973 the Danes raided across the German border but the new emperor Otto II retaliated in 974 and captured the Danevirke and Hedeby occupying them for some years. However in 983 Harald attacked Germany with his Abodrite ally Mistivoi and recovered his earlier losses. This political alliance had been sealed with Harald s marriage to Tove Mistivoi s daughter. Tove herself raised a rune-stone Danmarks Runeindskrifter