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Ivar the Boneless was the leader of the Great Heathen Army from 865 to 870, but he disappears from English historical accounts after 870. [58] The Anglo-Saxon chronicler Æthelweard records Ivar's death as 870. [59] Halfdan Ragnarsson became the leader of the Great Heathen Army in about 870 and he led it in an invasion of Wessex. [60]
The Viking leaders often joined together for mutual benefit and then dissolved once profit had been achieved. [27] Several of the Viking leaders who had been active in Francia and Frisia joined forces to conquer the four kingdoms constituting Anglo-Saxon England. The composite force probably contained elements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and ...
Halfdan Ragnarsson (Old Norse: Hálfdan; Old English: Halfdene or Healfdene; Old Irish: Albann; died 877) was a Viking leader and a commander of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, starting in 865.
Bagsecg's origins are obscure. He is one of the first Vikings to be named by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. [2] He and Healfdene are the first principal Viking leaders attested by all versions of this source, after the Great Army's arrival in Wessex. [3] [note 1] Nothing further is known regarding Bagsecg's background. [12]
North Germanic monarchs of Denmark, Norway and/or Sweden (and Kievan Rus) living in the Viking Age (793–1066 AD). ... (12 P) 9th-century Norwegian monarchs (9 P)
The military history of Norway commences before the Viking Age with the internal wars fought between regional kings to obtain the supreme kingship of the whole of Norway. . The most famous period of Norwegian history and thus military history is the Viking Age, but the early Middle Ages was the era when Norwegian military power in Europe reached its pe
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A hersir was a local Viking military commander of a hundred (a county subdivision), of about 100 men, and owed allegiance to a jarl or king. They were also aspiring landowners, and, like the middle class in many feudal societies, supported the kings in their centralization of power.