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...
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| Battle of Stiklestad, Altar from the elder medieval period. In the upper left corner the dream of King Olav before the battle, down under the king rides into battle and down right corner shows the Regicide, where Tore Hund in reindeer skin kills the king with a spear. And at last in the middle of the picture Olaf was canonized as a saint. |
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| Saint Olafs death at Stiklestad by Peter Nicolai Arbo 1859 |
he lost and Olav the holy was killed in the battle and most of his army was slaughtered. He was soon accepted as a saint named Sct. Olaf and Rex perpetuum Norvegiae.
Harald Hardrada managed to escape. Rognvald Brusason helped to hide the wounded Harald Hardrada in Eastern Norway and then escape to Novgorod.
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| rune stone U1158 |
Yaroslav the Wise of Novgorod and Kiev raided the Estonian fortress of Tarbatu and founded a fort named Yuryev. A Swedish viking Freygeirr was killed during an united Swedish and Kievan Rus' expedition against the Estonians of Saaremaa. A Swedish rune stone U1158 says Guðsteinn and Eistr(meaning Estonian) and Áki had the stone raised in memory of Freygeirr, their father. Lífsteinn cut these runes.
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King Mieszko 2 Lambert of Poland burned down Hamburg
Isle of Man
Ragnvald Gudrødsson’s son, Echmaracach (Horseman), was vassal on Man of the Cnut the Great.
Ireland
Sigtrygg Silkbeard joined Cnut the great on a raid on Wales.
Azerbaijan
The Rus looted in the region of Shirvan; the leader of Ganja then bribed them to crush a rebellion in Beylagan.
Ragnvald Gudrødsson’s son, Echmaracach (Horseman), was vassal on Man of the Cnut the Great.
Ireland
Sigtrygg Silkbeard joined Cnut the great on a raid on Wales.
Azerbaijan
The Rus looted in the region of Shirvan; the leader of Ganja then bribed them to crush a rebellion in Beylagan.
Sweden
On the northernmost runestone on the island Frösön in Jämtland, the Frösö Runestone, tales tell that a man called Austmaðr christianized the region, probably in the period 1030–1050 when the runestone was raised. Little is known of Austmaðr, but he is believed to have been the lawspeaker of the regional thing Jamtamót. Runestone U 582 tell us of a viking named Ótrygg killed in Finland. According to historian Unto Salo the raid was done between 1030 and 1050. And the Runestone Gs 13 in Gävle we can read that the death of a viking named Egil occured on a pillage journey to Tavastia lead by Freygeir in the early 11th century.
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