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11
.
EHD
, pp. 238-9.
12
.
Anglo-Saxon Charters: An annotated list and bibliography
, by P. H. Sawyer (London 1968: 277) (Charter no. 909).
13
.
The Vikings
, by Magnus Magnusson (Stroud 2003: 274).
14
. A version of Henry of Huntingdon’s account can be read on the website cited in note 10 above.
15
.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, op. cit., p. 139.
16
. ibid., p. 141.
17
. ibid.
18
.
The Early History of the Church of Canterbury
, by Nicholas Brooks (Leicester 1984: 285).
19
.
Erik the Red and other Icelandic Sagas
, selected and trans. by Gwyn Jones (London 1961: 279-80).
20
.
The Works of Sven Aggesen
, trans. with introduction and notes by Eric Christiansen (London 1992: 35).
21
.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, op. cit., p. 144.
22
. It was this marriage between his great-aunt and Ethelred, followed after Ethelred’s death by her marriage to Cnut of Denmark, that would give William of Normandy his slender claim to the throne of England in 1066.
23
.
The Normans in Europe
, trans. and ed. Elisabeth van Houts (Manchester 2000: 20).
24
.
EHD
, p. 894.
25
. ibid., p. 246.
26
. ibid., p. 928.
27
. ibid., p. 932.
28
. ibid., p. 933, n. 6.
29
. ibid., pp. 933-4.
30
.
Adam av Bremen. Beretningen om Hamburg stift, erkebiskopenes bedrifter og øyrikene i Norden
. Trans. and ed. Bjørg Tosterud Danielsen and Anne Katrine Frihagen (Oslo 1993: 99) (Book 1, Chapter 52).
31
.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, op. cit., p. 139.
32
.
EHD
, p. 250.
33
.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, op. cit., p. 153.
34
.
EHD
, p. 249, n. 3.
35
.
Encomium Emmae Reginae
, trans. and ed. Alistair Campbell, with a supplementary introduction by Simon Keynes (Cambridge 1996: lx).
36
.
EHD
, p. 312.
37
.
Who’s Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England 55
BC-AD
1066
, by Richard Fletcher (Mechanicsburg 2002: 204).
38
. ‘Who were the thegns of Cnut the Great?’ by Carl Löfving, in
Viking Heritage
, 2 (2005: 14-17).
39
. ‘Cnut’s Scandinavian empire’, by Peter Sawyer, in
The Reign of Cnut: King of England, Denmark and Norway
, ed. Alexander R. Rumble (London 1994: 19-20).
40
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 98 (Book 2, Chapter 52).
41
.
EHD
, p. 896.
42
. ibid., p. 455.
43
.
The Early History of the Church of Canterbury
, op. cit., p. 292.
44
. ibid., p. 292.
45
.
EHD
, p. 477.
46
. ‘Contextualising the Knútsdrápur: skaldic praise-poetry at the court of Cnut’, by Matthew Townend, in
Ango-Saxon England
(2001, 30: 145-79). Internet resource at
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=123937
(accessed 19.12.2007).
47
. ‘King Cnut in the verse of his skalds’, by Roberta Frank, in
The Reign of Cnut
, op. cit., p. 108.
48
. Writing in the thirteenth century, Snorri Sturluson glossed the word
skáld
as
frædamadr
, meaning someone learned, knowledgeable and possessed of essential information, rather than simply a ‘poet’ in the modern sense of a maker of verse. See ‘Memorials in speech and writing’, by Judith Jesch, in
Hikuin
, ed. Gunhild Øeby Nielsen (Århus 2006: 101).
49
.
Heimskringla, or The Lives of the Norse Kings
by Snorri Sturluson, ed. with notes by Erling Monsen, trans. with the assistance of A. H. Smith (New York 1990: 402).
50
.
KHLNM
, vol. 15, p. 237.
51
.
EHD
, p. 333.
52
. ibid., p. 337.
53
. ibid., p. 260.
CHAPTER 17 THE VIKING SAINT
1
.
Heimskringla, or The Lives of the Norse Kings
, by Snorri Sturluson, ed. with notes by Erling Monsen, trans. with the assistance of A. H. Smith (New York 1990: 167).
2
.
Ágrip: A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway
, ed. and trans. with an introduction and notes by M. J. Driscoll (London 1995: 96).
3
. ibid., p. 35.
4
.
The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings
, by Theodoricus Monachus, trans. and annotated by David and Ian McDougall, with an introduction by Peter Foote (London 1998: 21).
5
.
Aschehougs Norges Historie, b. 2, Vikingtid og rikssamling 800-1139
, by Claus Krag (Oslo 2005: 179); see also
Heimskringla
, op. cit., p. 218.
6
.
EHD
, p. 333.
7
. ibid.
8
.
The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings
, op. cit., p. 17.
9
.
Ágrip
, op. cit., p. 35.
10
.
Regestica Norvegica I 822-1263
, ed. Erik Gunnes (Oslo 1989: 28-32).
11
.
Ágrip
, op. cit., p. 39.
12
. For a full account of this hypothesis, see
Aschehougs Norges Historie, b. 2
, op. cit., pp. 185-8.
13
. ibid., p. 185.
14
.
EHD
, p. 454.
15
.
Heimskringla
, op. cit., pp. 356-7.
16
.
EHD
, p. 336.
17
.
KHLNM
, vol. 5, p. 559.
18
. ‘Fast and Feast: Christianization through the regulation of everyday life’, by Alexandra Sanmark, in
Viking Heritage
, 4 (2005: 3-7).
19
. Florence of Worcester reports the rumour that Ælfgifu deceived the king and presented as his own the son of a priest.
EHD
, p. 315
20
.
Ágrip
, op. cit., p. 41.
21
. ibid., p. 45.
22
. In 1031 the Church’s bishops could confer sainthood on the dead on their own initiative. By Snorri’s time the Pope alone had this power.
23
.
EHD
, p. 255.
24
.
Aschehougs Norges Historie, b. 2
, op. cit., p. 165.
25
. ‘Anglo-Saxon saints in Old Norse sources and vice-versa’, by Christine E. Fell, in
Proceedings of the Eighth Viking Congress
(Odense 1981: 95-6).
26
.
Rundata
, U 687.
27
.
Ágrip
, op. cit., pp. 47-9.
28
.
Morkinskinna: The earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157)
, trans. with an introduction and notes by Theodore M. Anders son and Kari Ellen Gade (Ithaca and London 2000: 66 and 101).
29
.
The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings
, op. cit., p. 34.
30
.
Heimskringla
, op. cit., p. 489.
31
. ibid., p. 502.
32
.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, trans. and ed. G. N. Garmonsway (London 1990: 165).
33
.
Heimskringla
, op. cit., p. 503, note 1.
CHAPTER 18 HEATHENDOM’S LAST BASTION
1
. There are fewer names than stones because a number of the stones and inscriptions are fragments without names.
2
.
Rundata
, Sö 179.
3
. This is of course not Harald Hardrada.
4
.
Rundata
, U 778.
5
.
Rundata
, Sö 108.
6
.
Rundata
, Sö 107.
7
. A small body of opinion prefers to identify the ‘Ingvar’ of this saga as the Kievan prince Igor, who attacked Constantinople in 941. See above, Chapter 6. See also
Vikingar i Österled
, by Mats G. Larsson (Stockholm 2003: 24).
8
.
Adam av Bremen. Beretningen om Hamburg stift, erkebiskopenes bedrifter og øyrikene i Norden
, trans. and ed. Bjørg Tosterud Danielsen and Anne Katrine Frihagen (Oslo 1993: 132) (Book 3, Chapter 16).
9
.
The Russian Primary Chronicle
, trans. and ed. Samuel H. Cross (Cambridge, Mass. 1930: 225).
10
. ‘Runestones tell about mercenaries going east,’ by Mats G. Larsson, in
Viking Heritage
, 2 (2001: 18-19).
11
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 178 (Book 3, Chapter 72).
12
. ibid., p. 80 (Book 2, Chapter 25).
13
. ibid., p. 89 (Book 2, Chapter 37).
14
.
The Viking Achievement
, by P. Foote and D. Wilson (London 1974: 32).
15
.
The Early History of the Church of Canterbury
, by Nicholas Brooks (Leicester 1984: 283).
16
.
Olof Skötkonung och kristnandet
:
http://www.tacitus.nu/svenskhistoria/kungar/vikingatid/oskristnandet.htm
. Internet resource (accessed 26.10.2007).
17
. A clear division of geographical Sweden into regions dominated by separate tribes known as the Svear and the Gautar at this time is not universally accepted by historians.
18
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 102 (Book 2, Chapter 58).
19
.
Hedenskap og Kristendom
, by Fredrik Paasche (Oslo 1948: 41).
20
.
Kristninga i Norden 750-1200
, by Jón Vidar Sigurdsson (Oslo 2003: 33).
21
.
Rundata
, J RS1928;66 $.
22
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 131 (Book 3, Chapter 15).
23
. ‘The Lily Stones: research findings shed new light on the history of Christianity’, by Christen Åhlin in
Viking Heritage
, 3 (2002: 28).
24
. Populär Historia: ‘Til hvilken tid hör liljestenarna?’
http://www.popularhistoria.se/o.o.i.s?id=170&vid=509&template=.print.t
. Internet resource (accessed 26.10.2007). See also
Viking Heritage
, 3 (2002: 28).
25
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 209 (Book 4, Chapter 30).
26
. ibid., p. 161 (Book 3, Chapter 53).
27
. The rituals were those at Uppsala described by Adam and mentioned earlier, involving the sacrifice of nine males of different genus over a period of nine days.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 207 (Book 4, Chapter 27).
28
. ‘Study into the socio-political history of the Obodrites’, by Roman Zaroff, in
Collegium Medievale
, vol. 16 (2003: 27).
29
. Örjan Martinsson’s website (
http://www.tacitus.nu
) is a good guide to this obscure but important period of the history of the Swedes.
30
.
Hervarar saga ok Heidreks
was an important source for Tolkien’s
The Lord of the Rings
.
31
.
Orkneyinga Saga
, trans. and ed. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (London 1978: p. 80).
32
.
Kristninga i Norden
, op. cit., p. 33.
33
.
Vikingatiden i Skåne
, by Fredrik Svanberg (Lund 2000: 87).
34
.
Adam av Bremen
, op. cit., p. 91 (Book 2, Chapter 41).
35
. ibid., p. 189 (Book 4, Chapter 7).
36
.
Vikingatiden i Skåne
, op. cit., p. 93.
37
.
Oxford Dictionary of Popes
, by J. N. D. Kelly (Oxford 2003: 154).
38
.
Aschehougs Norges Historie, b. 2, Vikingtid og rikssamling 800-1130
, by Claus Krag (Oslo 2005: 240).
Index
Characters found only in Scandinavian alphabets are interfiled with their nearest equivalents in the English alphabet; Scandinavian personal names using patronymics rather than surnames are indexed under first name; the prefixes ‘al-’ and ‘ar-’ are ignored (e.g. ‘al-madjus’ is filed as if it were ‘madjus’).
Aachen
Abbo de St Germain
Abbo of Fleury
Abd al-Rahmin, emir
Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Adaldag, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Adalward the Younger, bishop of Sigtuna
Adam of Bremen
on Anund, king
on Birka defences
on Christianity in Sweden
on Cnut, king
on Danish Vikings
on deformities
on Egino, bishop
on Emund the Old
on Erik Segersäll
on Harald Bluetooth
on Hedeby-Birka sailing time
on Henrik, bishop
on Iceland
on Ingvar’s expedition
on Ivar the Boneless
on Olav Haraldson
on Olof Sköttkonung
on Ragnar Lodbrok
reliability as source
on Sven Estridson
on Tadiko, bishop
on unfaithful women
on Unni’s mission to Denmark
Uppsala temple description
on Viking Age causes
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