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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Ottar from Hålogaland | | | |  Ottar from Hålogaland: Encyclopedia II - Ohthere - CommentsSwedish scholars doubt the Icelandic and Norwegian localisation of Ottar's death to Denmark. According to the classic Swedish encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok, vendelcrow was a name given to any resident of the parish and the ancient royal estate of Vendel until the present time. Consequently, Snorri Sturluson's version could be considered to be a later addition explaining a cognomen, the meaning of which he did not know.
Moreover, the Old Norse expression corresponding to putting someone on a mound has two meanings, one ...
See also:Ohthere, Ohthere - Beowulf, Ohthere - Scandinavian sources, Ohthere - Comments, Ohthere - Note, Ohthere - Primary sources, Ohthere - Secondary sources Read more here: » Ohthere: Encyclopedia II - Ohthere - Comments |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 Ottar answered that the Swedes had never paid tribute to the Danes and would not begin with him. Frodi then gathered a vast host and looted in Sweden, but the next summer he pillaged in the east. When Ottar learnt that Frodi was gone, he sailed to Denmark to plunder in return and went into the Limfjord where he pillaged in Vendsyssel. Frodi's jarls Vott and Faste attacked Ottar in the fjord. The battle was ...
See also:Ohthere, Ohthere - Beowulf, Ohthere - Scandinavian sources, Ohthere - Comments, Ohthere - Note, Ohthere - Primary sources, Ohthere - Secondary sources Read more here: » Ohthere: Encyclopedia II - Ohthere - Scandinavian sources |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Wars in Cwenland According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) (see also: Ottar from Hålogaland, near Troms (Tromsa), as well as the sagas by Egil the Finnish Kveens (a.k.a. Cwen people or Cwens, Quens) were in charge of the large northernmost territories of the Scandinavian Peninsula during the 9th century AD, and presumably long before that.
Ottar met the English King Alfred the Great in England in the end of the 9th century and made a thorough account to him of ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Wars in Cwenland |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 who lived in Cwenland. The Islandish sagas have thorough descriptions about the life and accomplishments of the Cwens,
Historians have for long drawn connections between the Varangians and the Finns.
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 ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Varangian and other Viking connections |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 in the areas that once was referred to as Cwenland. Those languages are Sami, Cwen, Meänkieli 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 Cwenland, i.e. in the ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Cwenland languages today |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 White sea and the surrounding areas in Northern Europe, in area that today is part of north-western Russia, limiting approximately to the modern day Finnish-Russian northern border in the Finnish province of Lapland.
Bjarmaland is mentioned e.g. by Norse sagas, where the Finnic Bjarmians (a.k.a. Bjarms) lived and "ruled". In at least some historical Norse ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Bjarms - the Finns of Northwestern Russia |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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) in the area known as Cwenland in historic Viking Age writings - such as historic Norse sagas and Swedish Viking Age chronicles, Scandinavian folklore and oral poetry - Finnish Kalevala in particular.
Historically, the term Tornedaleans referred to the Kvens of the most south-western parts of the historic Kvenland territories, in areas that are now mainly par ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Tornedalians - the Finns of Northern Sweden |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 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 Cwen 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 ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Cwen: Encyclopedia II - Cwen - Cwens today - the Finns of Northern Norway |
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| | | | | Ottar from Hålogaland: 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 historic Kvenland territories have located along and around 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 Kvenland river (a.k.a. River Kalix in Swedish or Kainuujoki in Finnish), the Torne ...
See also: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 Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - History |
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