Dane: Perbedaan antara revisi

Selama masa Viking, suku Dane bertempat di [[Semenanjung Jutlandia]], pulau [[Zealand]], dan [[Swedia]] selatan. Di awal abad 11 Raja [[Canute]] Yang Agung (wafat tahun 1035) memimpin Denmark dan [[England]] sebagai satu wilayah selama 20 tahun.

 

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Danes assaulted [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]] beginning about [[800|AD 800]] and were gradually followed by a succession of Danish settlers. The Danes began settling England in [[865]] when brothers [[Halfdan Ragnarsson]] and [[Ivar the Boneless]] wintered in [[East Anglia]]. Halfdan and Ivar moved north and captured [[Northumbria]] in [[867]] as well as [[York]]. <ref>Flores Historiarum: Rogeri de Wendover, Chronica sive flores historiarum, p. 298-9. ed. H. Coxe, [[Rolls Series]], 84 (4 vols, 1841-42)</ref> The Danes invaded Ireland in [[853|AD 853]] and were followed by Danish settlers who gradually assimilated with the local population and adopted Christianity.

 

Tilsted stayed loyal to Sweyn Forkbeard and died in 1013, after having sailed up the rivers Humber and Trent with Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Cnute, for Sweyn to be accepted as king of the Danelaw. In Denmark, his sons raised a rune stone as a memorial at his homestead<ref>T 42: "And Rune, Malte and Tajs had the stone erected in memory of their father. He had taken two payments and many female thralls in England. May he be seated next to Odin in the great hall."</ref> in Roskilde.

 

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