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Harald Bluetooth [10] [11] 961 – c. 980 [12] (de jure) (Non-contemporary) c. 925/35 [citation needed] Son of Gorm the Old and Thyra [citation needed] Tove of the Obotrites Four or six children 987 latest Jomsborg: R Earl Haakon Sigurdsson [9] 965/70–995 [12] (de facto) (Non-contemporary) c. 935 Trondheim Son of Sigurd Haakonsson and ...
North Germanic monarchs of Denmark, Norway and/or Sweden (and Kievan Rus) living in the Viking Age ... This page was last edited on 10 August 2024, at 16:42 (UTC).
This is a list of the rulers of Greenland: . The Norse Colony of Greenland (982–1261) The Kingdom of Norway (1261–1814) . The personal union of Norway and Sweden (1319–1343)
The Viking leaders often joined together for mutual benefit and then dissolved once profit had been achieved. [27] Several of the Viking leaders who had been active in Francia and Frisia joined forces to conquer the four kingdoms constituting Anglo-Saxon England. The composite force probably contained elements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and ...
That carver’s repeated mention of Thyra’s name — a rare occurrence for Viking-era women — suggested that Thyra was a powerful sovereign who likely played a pivotal role in the birth of the ...
Gerry Simpson distinguishes "Great Powers", an elite group of states that manages the international legal order, from "great powers", empires or states whose military and political might define an era. [2] The following is a list of empires that have been called great powers during the Middle Ages: India; China (throughout) [3] [4] Goguryeo ...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
Here, we’ve gathered 205 of the best Viking names for males and females. Some of them signify strength and courage in battle, not to mention the rugged lives of the Scandinavian warriors who had ...