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In Irish mythology, Donn ("the dark one", from Proto-Celtic: *Dhuosnos) [1] [2] is an ancestor of the Gaels and is believed to have been a god of the dead. [2] [3] [4] Donn is said to dwell in Tech Duinn (the "house of Donn" or "house of the dark one"), [5] where the souls of the dead gather. [6] He may have originally been an aspect of the ...
The ancestry of King Duncan is not certain. In modern texts, he is the son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethóc, daughter of King Malcolm II.However, in the late 17th century the historian Frederic Van Bossen, after collecting historical accounts throughout Europe, identified King Duncan as the first son of Abonarhl ap crinan (the grandson of Crinan) and princess Beatrice ...
[2] Earl Leofric of Mercia founds Coventry Abbey; according to legend, his wife Godiva rides naked through the town in protest at taxes to fund the abbey. [2] 1044. King Edward pardons Emma and Stigand. [2] 1045. Marriage of King Edward and Edith of Wessex. [2] 1046. 10 April – Leofric appointed Bishop of Crediton and Bishop of Cornwall.
March 17 – Harold Harefoot, king of England [1] May 29 – Renauld I, French nobleman; June 21 – Fulk III, French nobleman (b. 970) August 14 – Duncan I, king of Scotland [2] October 1 – Alan III, duke of Brittany (b. 997) Abu Hashim al-Hasan, Zaidi imam and ruler of Jemen; Abu Nasr Mushkan, Persian statesman (or 1039)
The 1040s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1040, and ended on December 31 ... It is the first book in history to include formulas for ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
The king of Akkad (Akkadian: šar māt Akkadi, lit. ' king of the land of Akkad ' [1]) was the ruler of the city of Akkad and its empire, in ancient Mesopotamia.In the 3rd millennium BC, from the reign of Sargon of Akkad to the reign of his great-grandson Shar-Kali-Sharri, the Akkadian Empire represented the dominant power in Mesopotamia and the first known great empire.
The seven provinces of Ireland as defined in the 10th-century Lebor na Cert (Book of Rights). The King of Ulster (Old Irish: Rí Ulad, Modern Irish: Rí Uladh) also known as the King of Ulaid and King of the Ulaid, was any of the kings of the Irish provincial over-kingdom of Ulaid.