XII. FROM VIKING CHAOS TO VIKING CONVERSION
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Comment Blog
Danes on Jutland, Götar on Baltic Islands, Swedes
“Norway” and “Nordman”
The Gotstad Boat
Cambrai, Sens, Chartres, Fleury, Orleans
East Anglia
888: Cologne, Rouen, Nantes, Orleans, Bordeaux, London, York
Bizzerkers
819: Noirmoutier Island
Monks of St. Philbert
Shetland and Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Limerick)
Wessex under King Alfred (w. Alphonso) “that handful of inspired laymen, who, in the ultimate crisis, have saved, under God, the Church and Christendom.” Warren Carroll
Jarls, Thingvellir
Olaf Tryggavason
Sweyn the Fork-Bearded
King Cnut
William the Conqueror – Norman
Charles the Simple; Rollo
Santiago de Compostello; Poitou; Utrecht
St. Ansgar
Thorolf Lousebeard
Vladimir
Bishop of Winchester
Bishop Sigfrid
Thangbrand
Lief, son of Eric the Red
Thorkell the Tall
Ethelred the Unready
Olaf Haroldsson; King Olaf II; Saint Olaf
The battle of Stiklestad
St. Adalbert: Archdiocese of Upsala