For the
time being Cnut had to be satisfied, but in 1025 he
sailed with a fleet to Norway, only to suffer defeat
at the Battle of the Helge-aa (i.e. Holy River) in
Skaane, at the hands of the united forces of Norway
and Sweden. Olaf’s strenuous and often cruel advocacy
of the cause of Christianity had alienated many of
his subjects and the Swedes had deserted their ally. The result was that Olaf fled to Russia and Cnut was[42]
declared king of Norway. Two years later the exile
returned and fell fighting against his own countrymen.
The villagers tried their best to fend them off, but couldn’t escape a tragic end. When the divine servants found him, he was laying among the dead, enduring the pain of the underworld fire by his lonesome. To save the young and fragile Laird, the divine servants rushed him to the shrine, and a long treatment began. With the divine servants’ persevering efforts, the underworld fire in Laird’s body was gradually quelled, and his innate divinity also granted him the ability to manipulate fire.
Of the condition of Sweden we know practically
nothing but we have sufficient information about the[8]
course of events in Denmark at this time to see that
it probably tended to hasten the development of
the Viking movement. Throughout the first half
of the 9th century there were repeated dynastic
struggles accompanied probably by the exile, voluntary
or forced, of many members of the rival
factions. The Vikings originated from an area that we now identify as Denmark, Sweden and Norway. These Northmen were initially part of a homogenous group that diversified through the centuries. Multiple small kingdoms were established that were in conflict with each other.
- The reconquest of the Danelagh was
complete and Edward now received the submission
of the Scots, the Strathclyde Welsh, of Regnold (O.N.
Rögnvaldr) of Northumbria, and of English, Danes
and Norsemen alike. - Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266 CE, his son Magnus the Law-Mender ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to Alexander III, through the Treaty of Perth.
- Olaf
Tryggvason’s vessel, the Long Serpent, in which he
fought his last fight at Svoldr, had thirty benches of
oars, while Cnut the Great had one with sixty pairs
of oars. - One night, the sinister and shrewd Niflung troops attacked Hobert’s clan.
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All laws to
be valid must be promulgated from the Tynwald Hill
which corresponds to the lögberg or law-hill of the
Icelandic althing. When the court is held the
coroner ‘fences’ it against all disturbance or disorder,
just as in the old Norwegian Gulathing we hear
of vé-bönd or sanctuary-ropes drawn around the
assembly. It was a popular belief, sanctioned by the
express statement of Odin, that a man would enjoy
in Valhalla whatsoever he had himself buried in
the earth.
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The settlement of Normandy helped
however towards the consolidation of power in the
hands of Charles the Bald and his successors, much
as the settlement of the Danelagh helped in establishing
the final supremacy of Wessex. For the extent and character of the Viking
settlements in England we have however a far more
delicate and accurate index than that to be found in
the evidence of place-names and dialects. Durham the tributaries netent slot of
the Wear vary between ‘burn’ and ‘beck,’ but by
the time we reach the Tees these have all become
becks. Beechburn Beck, a tributary of the Wear,
shows how a Scandinavian term could be attached to
an English name, when its own meaning was neglected
or forgotten. Other Scandinavian names are common,
but as in Northumberland they belong to the dialect
generally and are seldom found in names of towns
or villages.
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Yet more interesting perhaps is the old
lay preserved to us, the Song of the Valkyries, who
that same day were seen in Caithness riding twelve
together to a bower where they set up a loom of
which men’s heads were the weights, men’s entrails
the warp and woof, while a sword was the shuttle
and the reels were arrows. They wove the web
of war and foretold the fate of king Sigtryggr and
Earl Sigurd as well as the sharp sorrow which
would befall the Irish[9]. The Norse world was full
of this and like portents and there can be no question
that the Vikings were themselves conscious that the
battle of Clontarf marked a very definite epoch in
the history of the Vikings in the West and in Ireland
more particularly. The Norsemen remained in
possession of their cities, Sigtryggr continued as
king of Dublin, but gradually the fortunes of the
Norse settlers tended to become merged in the history
of the nation as a whole and there was no further
question of Scandinavian supremacy in Ireland. When the English invasion had failed, those who
could not settle in England returned to their French
haunts once more.
Rollo divided the land
among a comparatively small number of large[141]
landholders and the system of land tenure was quite
different from that in the English Danelagh with its
large number of small freeholders. On the other
hand it was probably due to Norse traditions of
personal freedom that serfdom disappeared earlier in
Normandy than in any other of the French provinces. [16] The ore as a unit of weight for silver is of Scandinavian origin.
