Scandinavia, Ancient and ModernCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - 222 pages Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FROM CANUTE THE GREAT TO TALDEMAR 1. 189 CHAPTER V. From Canute the Great to Valdemar the Great. Partition of Canute's Dominions.?Accession of Svend Estrith- son in Demark.?Wars with Norway.?Disputes between the Crown and the Clergy.?St. Knut's abortive Invasion of England.?Resistance of the Danes to Tithes.?Archiepiscopal See of Lund established.?Erik Eiegod's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.?Sanguinary Reign of Nikolas.?Institution of Guilds. ?Contests of rival Factions for the Succession.?Civil War.? Division of the Kingdom.?Accession of Valdemar I.?Power and Ambition of the Romish Clergy.?Warrior Bishops.?Designs of Frederic Barbarossa upon Denmark.?Crusades of Valdemar against the Wends.?Destruction of Jomsborg.? Foundation of Copenhagen.?Affairs of Norway.?Adventures and Reign of Harald Hardrade.?His Invasion of England.? Progress of Civilization under Olaf Kyrre.?Expedition of Magnus against the Scottish Isles.?His Conquests in Iceland.?Pilgrimage of Sigurd IV. to Jerusalem.?His Adventures at Constantinople.?Various Pretenders to the Norwegian Throne.?Long Succession of Civil Wars.?Interposition of Cardinal Albano.?Archbishopric of Trondheim established.?Concessions made to the new See.?Affairs of Sweden. ?Extinction of the Dynasty of Stenkill.?Rival Factions of the Goths and Swedes.?Treaty of alternate Succession.? Progress of Christianity.?Bishop of Upsala made Primate.? The Folkungar usurp the Throne. The extensive dominions of Canute the Great were partitioned among his three sons. Horda-Knut, whom he had by Queen Emma, was already in possession of Denmark, and ought also, by the nuptial contract, to have succeeded to the English crown. But the intrigues of Earl Godwin procured the throne of that kingdom for Harald Harefoot, the illegitimate child of Canute by his... |
