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Giles Kristian was born in 1975, [9] in Leicestershire, England, to a Norwegian mother and an English father. [10] During the 1990s, he was selected from 8000 hopefuls [11] to become lead singer of the pop group Upside Down, achieving three top twenty hit records on the UK Singles Chart with the boy band, [12] performing at such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, N.E.C. and Wembley Arena.
Sigurd and His Wife Åsta consulting Olaf II the Holy. The traditional view of Sigurd Halvdansson Syr's pedigree, as presented in various Icelandic poems and historical sagas culminating in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, is that he was a great-grandson of King Harald Fairhair, through Harald's son Sigurd Rise.
The rediscovery of the Viking past began in Norway during the 19th century when Norway saw a rise in nationalism. Having been in a personal union with Denmark under the Danish king for 400 years and subsequently in the union between Sweden and Norway under the Swedish king, Norwegians started looking back to their Viking Age kings and sagas.
Einarr Rognvaldarson (fl. early 890s–c. 910), often referred to by his byname Torf-Einarr (sometimes anglicised as Turf-Einar), was one of the Norse earls of Orkney.The son of the Norse jarl Rognvald Eysteinsson and a concubine, his rise to power is related in sagas which apparently draw on verses of Einarr's own composition for inspiration.
Vikings under Leif Erikson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America and set up short-lived settlements in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. This expansion occurred during the Medieval Warm Period. [64] Viking expansion into continental Europe was limited. Their realm was bordered by powerful tribes to the south.
The Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue is the strongest example among the Icelandic sagas of court culture and the culture of gift giving in the late Viking age.The exchange of gifts was common in many parts of Viking society outside of court culture as a means of settling disputes and showing respect, [12] but gift-giving in a court context had a special significance in Viking culture.
Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk religion (as opposed to an organized religion), and its main purpose was the survival and regeneration of society.
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.