Gorm the Old (Danish: Gorm den Gamle; Old Norse: Gormr gamli; Latin: Gormus Senex), also called Gorm the Languid (Danish: Gorm Løge, Gorm den Dvaske)...

older of the two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The larger of the two stones was raised by King Gorm's son, Harald...

Snake-in-the-Eye, himself one of the sons of the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok. The saga in turn makes Harthacnut the father of the historical king, Gorm. It has...

(Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson; Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the...

Thyra (Old Norse: Þyri or Þyre) was the wife of King Gorm the Old of Denmark, and one of the first queens of Denmark widely believed by scholars to be...

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century. He was the father of Gorm the Old, the king of Denmark. Gorm succeeded his father as king and married Thyra. Gorm's son, Harald Bluetooth succeeded...

Svein Knutsson. It has also been called the House of Canute, the House of Denmark, the House of Gorm, or the Jelling dynasty. Under Harald Bluetooth's...

Gorm's Cup, also known as the Jelling Cup, is a small silver cup buried with the Danish king Gorm the Old, c. 958/959. The cup was found in the huge double...

The legendary kings of Denmark are the predecessors of Gorm the Old, a king who reigned ca. 930s to 950s and is the earliest reliably attested Danish...

defeat by Gorm the Old, again placing his death later than Adam would have it. The lost Gesta Wulinensis ecclesiae pontificum, of which the authenticity...

Gunhild's father, the Danish king Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle). Gamle is said to have died in 955 near the village of Nedre Frei during the Battle of Rastarkalv...

could be the Danish king Gorm the Old, and an Asbjørn who had a father named Toki. There is also a runestone at Aars, which once marked the cairn of "Valtóki"...

tells of Gnupa's defeat by Gorm the Old. However, this chronology would contradict that of Adam of Bremen, who places the succession and subsequent defeat...

late as 934. He was father of Gorm the Old. Denmark portal Monarchy portal Family tree of Danish monarchs Succession to the Danish throne List of Danish...

during the time Harald ruled Norway, Gorm the Old ruled all of Denmark, which would have left little room for a King Eirik. On the other hand, Gorm is considered...

the late 7th century and until Gorm the Old, but none of these suggestions have so far won universal acceptance. Most monarchs in Denmark since the 940s...

ascribing magical abilities to the queen. According to the 12th century Historia Norwegiæ, Gunnhild was the daughter of Gorm the Old, king of Denmark and Thyra...

and were slaughtered by Haakon's army. The sons of Eric returned in 957, with support from King Gorm the Old, King of Denmark, but were again defeated...

Danish royal house at the beginning of the 10th century, and his son, Gorm the Old, became the first in the official line (the 'Old' in his name indicates...

re-united by the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the 10th century. Originally an elective monarchy, it became hereditary only in the 17th century...

contemporary of the next Danish ruler Gorm the Old and acquired the kingdom of Ringerike. He was the maternal grandfather of Harald Fairhair. Helgi the Sharp (Ringerike)...

her heritage back to Gorm the Old. He is called the founder of the kingdom of Denmark, though at the time he did not control the whole country, only Jutland...

houses among the early Danish kings, but uses the term "the descent of Gorm the Old" about all the pre-Oldenburg monarchs. The name of the Estridsen dynasty...

lineage back to the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth from this time, thus making the Monarchy of Denmark the oldest in Europe. The area now known...

The Danish royal family traces its descent from the 10th century to the present monarch, King Frederik X. Note: This chart also includes the kings from...

(died c. 890), later King Æthelstan, who fought against Alfred the Great Gorm the Old (died c. 958) of Denmark and Norway Guthrum II, a 10th-century king...

legend, King Harald Bluetooth wanted to use the Tirslund Rock as a memorial stone on his parents Gorm the Old and Thyra's burial mounds in Jelling. It was...

of the first independent national Church in Europe, the Bulgarian Patriarchate. 927: Kingdom of England becomes a unified state. c. 936: Gorm the Old becomes...

Harald the younger. According to "Ragnarssona þáttr", Klakk-Harald was the father of Thyra and father-in-law of Gorm the Old. "Gorm took the kingship...