Ottar from Hålogaland - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Óttar: Encyclopedia - Óttar
Óttarr is a Scandinavian name. It stands for 'fearless warrior'. Speficic uses of the name include: In Heimskringla: Ottar is a Swedis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - The People
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suiones: Encyclopedia Ii - Suiones - History
The history of this tribe is shrouded in the mists of time. Besides Scandinavian mythology and Germanic legend, only a few sources descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troms: Encyclopedia Ii - Troms - Geography
Troms has a very rugged and indented coastline facing the Norwegian Sea. However, the large and mountaineous islands along the coast prov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bjarmaland: Encyclopedia Ii - Bjarmaland - Background
The Norwegian merchant Ottar (Ohthere) related for king Alfred the Great that he had passed the North Cape and after several days' voyage...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ohthere: Encyclopedia Ii - Ohthere - Beowulf
According to the oldest source, Beowulf, he was captured by the Geats together with his mother and his younger brother Onela. They were s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - The People
The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Kvens Today - The Finns Of Northern Norway
In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Languages In The Territory Of Kvenland Today
As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Varangian And Other Viking Connections
The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Kvens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, "founder of Norway", and his ancesto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Historical Usage Of The Term
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suiones: Encyclopedia Ii - Suiones - Etymology
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 wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troms: Encyclopedia Ii - Troms - History
There were settlements along the coast of more southern areas of North Norway in the bronze age, possibly reaching as far north as southe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troms: Encyclopedia Ii - Troms - Economy
The county is mainly mountainous; but with some surprisingly lush valleys, however much of the interior supports livestock raising as onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - Wars In Kvenland
According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suiones: Encyclopedia Ii - Suiones - Location
Their primary dwellings were in eastern Svealand, i.e. the traditional Folklands of Attundaland, Tiundaland, Fjärdhundraland and Roslage...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suiones: Encyclopedia Ii - Suiones - On The Name
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Historical Usage Of The Term
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 hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - History
The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bjarmaland: Encyclopedia Ii - Bjarmaland - Identification
The name appears in old Norse literature, possible for the area where Arkhangelsk is presently situated, and where it was preceded by a B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ohthere: Encyclopedia Ii - Ohthere - Comments
Swedish scholars doubt the Icelandic and Norwegian localisation of Ottar's death to Denmark. According to the classic Swedish encyclopedi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ohthere: Encyclopedia Ii - Ohthere - Scandinavian Sources
According to the latest source, Ynglinga saga, Ottar refused to pay tribute to Frodi. Then Frodi sent two men to collect the tribute, but...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Wars In Cwenland
According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) (see also: Ottar from Hålogaland, nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Varangian And Other Viking Connections
The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Cwens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, founder of Norway, and his ancestors...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Cwenland Languages Today
As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Bjarms - The Finns Of Northwestern Russia
Bjarmaland (a.k.a. Bjarmland, Bjarmia or Perma) was a territory known up to the Viking Age - and beyond - on the south shores of the Whit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Tornedalians - The Finns Of Northern Sweden
The Tornedalians or Tornedalian Finns are - from historical perspective - members of the historic Kven people (i.e. descendants of Finns)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Cwens Today - The Finns Of Northern Norway
In today's Norway the term Cwen (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kven: Encyclopedia Ii - Kven - History
The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the...   » Read the article