Our awesome past
We Danes are for the most part blissfully ignorant of our past. Sure we know as the rest of the world a bit about Vikings, but not a lot really. Perhaps I just didn’t listened thoroughly enough in the history classes, but I haven’t the faintest clue about the deep past of our Country, so this blog entry is a collection of various articles about relations between present day Denmark and the consequences of its ancestors in the rest of the world.
The Cimbri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri
The Angles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles
The Juts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes
Viking expansion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion
The Founding of Russia by the Varagians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
The quest for Vinland (the first europeans in North America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas
Medieval history: http://omacl.org/DanishHistory/book1.html
Danelaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw
Kings of old:
Gorm the Old (Gorm den gamle) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorm_the_Old
Harald Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I_of_Denmark
Swen Forkbeard (Svend Tveskæg) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_I_of_Denmark
Cnut the Great (Knud den store) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great
