History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)Dunham, S. A. (Samuel Astley)
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History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Dunham, S. A. (Samuel Astley)
Scandinavia -- History
He effects Wikar’s Destruction; becomes 87
a Pirate; his Continence and great
Fame; his Abstemiousness; probably
several of this Name, and their
exploits all ascribed to one
Kills nine Champions in defence of 88
Helga, Sister of Ingel
His Revenge on the Murderers of Frode 89
His remarkable Death 90
Legend of _Gorm I._ King of Denmark 91
Importance of such Legends as 99
illustrative of the Opinions of
Mankind
Gorm, according to Saxo, contemporary 100
with the first of the Carlovingian
Kings, probably King of Jutland;
proofs that he was
794–935. RAGNAR 101
Probability that there were two of the 102
Name; the Actions of Ragnar and
Regnier, a Jutish Pirate, probably
confounded; his Death; doubtful
whether his Sons revenged his Death,
and made Northumberland a Danish State
SIGURD II. succeeds Ragnar in Scania and 102
the Isles, while Jutland had its
separate Kings; Hemming, King of
Jutland, contemporary with Sigurd;
Hemming succeeded by HARALD, who is
exiled by the Sons of Godfrey, turns
Christian, and returns in triumph,
through the Assistance of Louis le
Debonnaire; again, about 828, deprived
of his Throne, and passes his future
Days in religious Contemplation; his
Baptism, and efforts to introduce
Christianity in Jutland; St. Anscar;
SIGURD, the other King of Denmark, a
good and peaceable Prince
803. _Harda Canute_ succeeds his Father, 103
Sigurd, but according to Saxo, Eric I.
Several Kings ruled in Denmark and 104
Jutland at the same time; all finally
subdued by GORM _the Old_; Gorm’s
Conquests; he is defeated by Henry the
Fowler, and compelled to admit the
Christian Missionaries
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