 | Adam of Bremen (Latin: Adamus Bremensis; German: Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked... 4 KB (449 words) - 21:51, 20 October 2023 |
Helge (Danish king) (section Adam of Bremen's account) chronicle of Adam of Bremen (c. 1075), a certain king Helge ruled in Denmark after the defeat of the Norsemen. He was beloved by his people on account of his... 4 KB (462 words) - 10:33, 21 August 2023 |
 | Temple at Uppsala (redirect from Temple of Uppsala) what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in... 17 KB (2,285 words) - 02:23, 13 February 2024 |
 | Eric the Victorious (redirect from Eric VI of Sweden) Vättern. Adam of Bremen reports a king named Emund Eriksson before Eric, but it is not known whether he was Eric's father. The Norse sagas' accounts of a Björn... 22 KB (2,690 words) - 01:33, 26 April 2024 |
 | of Northmannia whose early-10th century conquest of Denmark was related by Adam of Bremen. The saga Ragnarssona þáttr relates the acts of the sons of... 8 KB (1,038 words) - 01:14, 2 April 2024 |
| Vinland (redirect from Battle of Vinland (1003)) given to part of North America by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Eriksson, about 1000 AD. It was also spelled Winland, as early as Adam of Bremen's Descriptio... 55 KB (7,124 words) - 18:58, 16 April 2024 |
 | and the 11th century work of Adam of Bremen. Due to a lack of preserved sources, little concrete information is known of Swedish kings during the Viking... 18 KB (1,825 words) - 23:00, 27 February 2024 |
 | Freyr (category Mythological kings of Sweden) associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. According to Adam of Bremen, Freyr was associated with peace and pleasure,... 48 KB (3,838 words) - 09:40, 18 March 2024 |
 | Swedes (tribe) (section Adam of Bremen) of Adam of Bremen about the Hamburg-Bremen archbishops who are denoted Sueones. Most scholars agree that Suiones and the attested Germanic forms of the... 24 KB (2,729 words) - 05:01, 26 December 2023 |
 | Olof Skötkonung (category Sons of kings) Ingegerd Olofsdotter. While Adam of Bremen praises Olof as a good Christian, Icelandic authors paint an unfavourable picture of the king as haughty and prickly... 25 KB (3,369 words) - 10:29, 26 April 2024 |
 | Mjölnir (redirect from Hammer of Thor) 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen records in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, who Adam describes as "mightiest"... 46 KB (5,787 words) - 19:19, 15 April 2024 |
 | Håkan the Red (category Year of birth unknown) 13th century on, at the latest. A scholion in Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen (written 1070s–early 1080s) says that Håkan... 13 KB (1,045 words) - 01:04, 13 March 2024 |
 | Harald Bluetooth (redirect from Harold I of Denmark) in 986, although several accounts claim 985 as his year of death. According to Adam of Bremen he died in Jumne/Jomsborg from his wounds. His body was... 26 KB (2,765 words) - 11:49, 13 April 2024 |
 | Cnut (redirect from Canute of England) the assumption that her father was Mieszko (not his son Bolesław). Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's... 75 KB (9,972 words) - 17:29, 28 April 2024 |
Aesti (category Iron Age peoples of Europe) the 11th century Adam of Bremen, citing Einhard (who in the Vita Caroli Magni states "the Slavs and the Aisti live on the shores of the Eastern Sea")... 13 KB (1,664 words) - 11:19, 26 March 2024 |
 | Ragnar Lodbrok (category Mythological kings of Denmark) chronicle of Adam of Bremen (c. 1075). Here Ragnar's father Sigurd Ring is a Norwegian prince married to a Danish princess, and different from the victor of Brávellir... 47 KB (5,115 words) - 02:52, 3 April 2024 |
Emund the Old (redirect from Edmund the Old of Sweden) German ecclesiastical chronicler Adam of Bremen, in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church), says that Anund... 14 KB (1,788 words) - 23:27, 13 March 2024 |
Eric and Eric (redirect from Eric VIII of Sweden) Eric and Eric, according to Adam of Bremen, were two contenders for the kingship of Sweden around 1066–67, after the death of King Stenkil. They waged war... 3 KB (320 words) - 13:15, 27 February 2024 |
6th century?, son of Halfdan Hrólfr Kraki, son of Halga After Hrólf Kraki no two sources give the same succession. Adam of Bremen mentions several kings... 15 KB (1,660 words) - 13:26, 8 February 2024 |
 | mentioned by Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus as ruling Denmark after an invasion by Sweden together with Slavic warriors. Adam of Bremen got the information... 50 KB (1,468 words) - 23:38, 20 April 2024 |
 | Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (redirect from Adam of Bromen) (Medieval Latin for "Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, who made additions (scholia)... 18 KB (2,274 words) - 12:32, 8 April 2024 |
 | Sweyn Forkbeard (redirect from Sweyn I of Denmark) Swegen), Adam of Bremen's 11th-century Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg, and Snorri Sturluson's 13th-century Heimskringla. Conflicting accounts of Sweyn's... 27 KB (2,929 words) - 09:28, 9 April 2024 |
 | Birka (redirect from The founding of Birka and Sliestorp-Scleiswig) Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the Archbishop Unni, who died at Birka... 49 KB (6,245 words) - 18:50, 27 February 2024 |
Olof the Brash (category 10th-century kings of Denmark) Olof was, according to Adam of Bremen, a Swedish chieftain who conquered Denmark c. 900 and founded the House of Olaf. Evidence for his historicity is... 6 KB (728 words) - 19:09, 12 November 2023 |
Gyrd and Gnupa (redirect from Gnupa of Denmark) and Gnupa were kings of Denmark in the 10th century according to Sweyn II of Denmark and Adam of Bremen. They were the sons of the Swedish chieftain... 3 KB (286 words) - 16:45, 25 February 2023 |
 | on an unknown date within the life-time of Adam of Bremen. Sigfrid's burial-place in Växjö became the centre of a cult. According to a statement by Johannes... 46 KB (6,900 words) - 22:30, 13 January 2024 |
 | Sigtrygg Gnupasson (redirect from Sigtrygg of Denmark) semi-legendary a king of Denmark of the House of Olaf who ruled in the 10th century, according to Adam of Bremen. Sigtrygg was son of Gnupa and the Danish... 3 KB (268 words) - 15:05, 20 January 2024 |
 | Vikings (category History of Scandinavia) (витязь). In the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontifi, written by Adam of Bremen and completed in the 1080s... 216 KB (22,868 words) - 19:01, 27 March 2024 |
 | Old Norse religion (section Rites of passage) mentioned in Adam of Bremen's account of Uppsala and in Icelandic sagas, where they are called blótkelda or blótgrǫf, and Adam of Bremen also states that... 104 KB (13,191 words) - 19:01, 12 April 2024 |
 | Anund Jacob (redirect from Anund jacob of sweden) chronicle of Adam of Bremen and several Norse histories from the 12th and 13th centuries, in particular Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. Adam and Snorri... 21 KB (2,872 words) - 18:50, 27 April 2024 |