Peter Nicolai Arbo England 5th January 1066 , The English king Edward the confessor and then earl Harold Godwinson was proclaimed king at Westminster Abbey the day after the 6th. Edward the confessor had promised both Harold and William "Bastard" of Normandy the seat of the throne before he died. Both men were distant relatives to the childless Edward the confessor. When William heard of it he quickly raised an army. Harald Hardrada also claimed the English throne and he was faster than William the bastard and on 8th September,1066 240-300 Viking ships landed on the beaches of Scarborough and began an attempt to gain the English throne. 20th September,1066 Battle of Fulford : Harald Hardrada defeated the English earls Edwin and Walther. 2 days later Harald Hardrada attacked and conquered York. 24th September,1066 Harold Godwinson arrived after marching from London. 25th September,1066 Battle of Stamford bridge Battle of Stamford bridge Harald...
King Edmund of Wessex took five boroughs from Olaf in Danish Mercia.
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Harald bluetooth inherited the throne from Gorm the old, in his fathers last years he probably already had his own earldom. His mother Tyre died a couple of years before, which was written on the Jelling rune stone, which Gorm the old build on his queens burial ground in Jelling, Here she was called tanmaurkar but(Danes gift) and it is the first time the name Denmark was written on Danish soil.
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Thorgejr Ljosvetningagodi Althingi lawspeaker(985-1001) was born
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| Front ´The big Jelling stone sides |
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| The little Jelling Stone 2 sides |
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| Silver cup found at the tomb of Tyre |
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| The big Jelling runestone |
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