Óttarr is a Scandinavian name. It stands for 'fearless warrior'. Speficic uses of the name include: In Heimskringla: Ottar is a Swedish king. The same king appears in Beowulf as Ohthere. See Ottar (king). Ottar is the jarl of Östergötland who was killed by Harold I of Denmark. In Norse mythology, Óttarr is the protégé of Freya, and the subject of the Lay of Hyndla. See Óttar (mythology). The dwarf Ótr is sometimes known as Óttarr. The name Ótta

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The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century Finnish origin. In modern terminology, however, only those of Finnish background living in Northern Norway are called Kvens. The towns and communities around the Varanger Fjord in notheastern Norway still today possess the most visible and strong Kven (Cwen) culture, traditions and population anywhere. In many ways, the Varanger ...

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Cwen, Cwen - The people, Cwen - History, Cwen - Wars in Cwenland, Cwen - Varangian and other Viking connections, Cwen - Cwens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Cwen - Tornedalians - the Finns of Northern Sweden, Cwen - Bjarms - the Finns of Northwestern Russia, Cwen - Cwenland languages today, Cwen - Historical usage of the term

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The history of this tribe is shrouded in the mists of time. Besides Scandinavian mythology and Germanic legend, only a few sources describe them and there is very little information, in spite of the fact that the tribe existed already during the first century A.D. Suiones - Romans. There are two sources from the 1st century A.D that are quoted as referring to the Suiones. The first one is Pliny the Elder who said that the Romans had rounded the Cimbric peninsula (Jutland) where there was the Coda ...

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Suiones, Suiones - On the name, Suiones - Location, Suiones - Etymology, Suiones - History, Suiones - Romans, Suiones - Jordanes, Suiones - Anglo-Saxon sources, Suiones - Adam of Bremen, Suiones - Norse sagas

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Troms has a very rugged and indented coastline facing the Norwegian Sea. However, the large and mountaineous islands along the coast provides an excellent sheltered waterway on the inside. Starting in the south, the largest islands are: northeastern part of Hinnøya (the southern part is in Nordland), Grytøy, Senja, Kvaløya, Ringvassøya, Reinøy, Vannøy and Arnøy. There are several large fjords that stretches quite far inland. Starting in the south, the largest fjords are Vågsfjorden, Malangen, Balsfjorden, Ullsfjorden, Lyngen (the municipality has it's name from the fjord) and Kvænangen (fjord). The largest lake is Alteva ...

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Troms, Troms - Geography, Troms - Economy, Troms - History, Troms - Municipalities

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The Norwegian merchant Ottar (Ohthere) related for king Alfred the Great that he had passed the North Cape and after several days' voyage he arrived at a great river, the Dvina. At the estuary of the Dvina, dwelt the Beormas, who unlike the nomadic Sami peoples were sedentary, and their land was rich and populous. Ottar did not know their language but he said that it resembled the language of the Samis (Finno-ugric). The Biarmians told Ottar about their coun ...

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Bjarmaland, Bjarmaland - Identification, Bjarmaland - Background

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According to the oldest source, Beowulf, he was captured by the Geats together with his mother and his younger brother Onela. They were saved by his father Ongenþeow who killed the Geatish king Hæþcyn and besieged the Geats in a forest named Raven's wood (wið Hrefnawudu and in Hrefnesholt 1). However, Geatish reinforcements arrived led by the Geatish prince Hygelac w ...

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Ohthere, Ohthere - Beowulf, Ohthere - Scandinavian sources, Ohthere - Comments, Ohthere - Note, Ohthere - Primary sources, Ohthere - Secondary sources

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The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century Finnish origin. In modern terminology, however, only those of Finnish background living in Northern Norway are refered to as Kvens. The towns and communities around the Varanger Fjord in notheastern Norway still today possess the most visible and strong Kven (Cwen, Kveeni) culture, traditio ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northern Norway, who have settled there before the 20th century. After the Middle Ages and the migration of the so called Tornedalians the next larger migration wave up north - this time again reaching the coastal areas of today's Norway - happened in the early 18th century. The following Kven migration to Northern Norway - and to the areas that were a part of the Republic of Finland up till 1944 - took place in the beginning of the 19th ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland in the areas that once was referred to as Kvenland. Those languages are Sami, Kainu (official name accepted legally in 2005, a.k.a. Kainun kieli - i.e. the language on Kainu - and Kven), Meänkieli (a.k.a. Tornedalen) and Finnish. The four Finno-Ugric (a.k.a. Fenno-Ugric, Finnic or Uralic) languages are tought in the schools in the area of the historic Kv ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Kvens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, "founder of Norway", and his ancestors who lived in Kvenland. The Islandish sagas have thorough descriptions about the life and accomplishments of the Kvens. The newest archeological research and findings - such as the approximately millennium old jewlery findings made in the Lake Inari district in Northern Finland in the summer of 2005 - seem to support the lin ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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98 A.D., the Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus wrote about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded history. (In reality he is thought to have meant the Lapps). To add to the confusion, the Viking Age Norwegians often called the Samis either Skridfinns or Finns, to separate them from the Kvens, who in reality actually were - of course - also Finns, more so than the Samis, though they too are members of the Finnic (a.k.a. Finn ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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The form Suiones appears in the Roman author Tacitus's Germania. A closely similar form, Sweon(as), is found in Old English and in the work of Adam of Bremen, about the Hamburg-Bremen archbishops, they are denoted Sueones. According to one theory (Schagerström 1931), the name is derived from Proto-Germanic *saiwi- meaning "lake" or "sea" resulting in *siwíoniz and later *swi-oniz meaning the "sea people". However, this root is not known to have produced any other deriv ...

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Suiones, Suiones - On the name, Suiones - Location, Suiones - Etymology, Suiones - History, Suiones - Romans, Suiones - Jordanes, Suiones - Anglo-Saxon sources, Suiones - Adam of Bremen, Suiones - Norse sagas

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There were settlements along the coast of more southern areas of North Norway in the bronze age, possibly reaching as far north as southern part of Troms (Harstad-area), although there are very little evidens of bronze actually being used; this northern area might have gone straight from stoneage to iron age wrt use of tools. There are substantially more archeological evidens of a norse iron-based culture in the late roman age (200 - 400 AD), reaching as far north as Karlsøy (near todays Tromsø [1]), but not further northeast. The N ...

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Troms, Troms - Geography, Troms - Economy, Troms - History, Troms - Municipalities

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The county is mainly mountainous; but with some surprisingly lush valleys, however much of the interior supports livestock raising as only means of agriculture. Along the coast and on the islands, fishing is dominant. The city of Tromsø, in the north central part, is the county seat and an Arctic seaport, and seat of the world's northernmost university. Harstad is the regional centre for the southern part of the county. The Norwegian armed forces is a vital employer in Troms, having the seat of the 6th army division as well as several air force bases, helicopter wings ...

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According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, near Troms (Tromsa), as well as the Icelandic sagas - such as e.g. the Egil's saga by Snorri Sturluson - the Finnish Kvens (a.k.a. Kven people or Kvens, Cwens or Quens) were in charge of the large northernmost territories of the Scandinavian Peninsula during the 9th century AD, i.e. during the period referred to in agas in question. In 1230 AD, in the introduction to the Orkneyinga Saga, Fundinn Noregr discusses the kings of Finland and K ...

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Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term

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Their primary dwellings were in eastern Svealand, i.e. the traditional Folklands of Attundaland, Tiundaland, Fjärdhundraland and Roslagen in the area of the present cities of Uppsala and Stockholm and the modern province of Gästrikland. Their territories also probably included the provinces of Västmanland, Södermanland and Nerike in the basin of Mälaren which constituted a bay with a multitude of islands. The region is still one of the most fertile and dense ...

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Suiones, Suiones - On the name, Suiones - Location, Suiones - Etymology, Suiones - History, Suiones - Romans, Suiones - Jordanes, Suiones - Anglo-Saxon sources, Suiones - Adam of Bremen, Suiones - Norse sagas

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As the dominions of the Swedish kings grew, the name was applied also to include the Geats during the Middle Ages, but later it returned to referring only the people inhabiting the original tribal lands in Svealand, in opposition to the Geats. In modern Scandinavian, the adjectival form svensk and its plural svenskar/svensker have replaced the name svear and is, today, used to denote all the citizens of Sweden in opposition to a ...

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Suiones, Suiones - On the name, Suiones - Location, Suiones - Etymology, Suiones - History, Suiones - Romans, Suiones - Jordanes, Suiones - Anglo-Saxon sources, Suiones - Adam of Bremen, Suiones - Norse sagas

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98 A.D., the Roman historian Tacitus writes about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded history. (In reality he is thought to have meant the Lapps). To add to the confusion, the Viking Age Norwegians often called the Samis either Skridfinns or Finns, to separate them from the Cwens, who in reality actually were - of course - also Finns, more so than the Samis, though they too are members of the Finnic (a.k.a. Finn ...

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Cwen, Cwen - The people, Cwen - History, Cwen - Wars in Cwenland, Cwen - Varangian and other Viking connections, Cwen - Cwens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Cwen - Tornedalians - the Finns of Northern Sweden, Cwen - Bjarms - the Finns of Northwestern Russia, Cwen - Cwenland languages today, Cwen - Historical usage of the term

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The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the historic Kvenland territories have located along big bodies of waters, such as the Gulf of Bothnia, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea and the White Sea, and by the large fjords such as the Varanger Fjord, and by large lakes such as the Lake Inari, and by large rivers such as the Cwenland river (a.k.a. River Kalix in Swedish or Kainuujoki in Finnish), the Torne ...

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Cwen, Cwen - The people, Cwen - History, Cwen - Wars in Cwenland, Cwen - Varangian and other Viking connections, Cwen - Cwens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Cwen - Tornedalians - the Finns of Northern Sweden, Cwen - Bjarms - the Finns of Northwestern Russia, Cwen - Cwenland languages today, Cwen - Historical usage of the term

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The name appears in old Norse literature, possible for the area where Arkhangelsk is presently situated, and where it was preceded by a Biarmian merchant town. The first appearance of the name is in the Voyage of Ohthere, which was undertaken ca 890. According to the story, it was not the first Scandinavian voyage to the Biarmians, and it was explicitly undertaken to purchase walrus tusks from the Biarmians. Biarmland is also used later, maybe not the same Biarmland, both by the German historian Adam of Bremen (ca. 11th c.) and the Icelander Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) in Herrauðs (Herraudhs) and Bosa sag ...

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Bjarmaland, Bjarmaland - Identification, Bjarmaland - Background

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