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    Claesson Fleming af Liebelitz (1681) Fabian Wrede af Elimä (1681-1685) Olof Arvidsson Thegner (1685-1689) Jakob Gyllenborg (1689-1695) Johan Hoghusen (1695-1714)...
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    Curonians on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea, but they are repulsed. King Olof leads Swedish Vikings in retaliation, and attacks the towns of Seeburg and...
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    queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung. To complicate the matter, Heimskringla and other sagas also have...
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    kilometers west of Skara. The stone was raised in memory of a man who was a thegn. The inscription on Vg 73 consists of runes carved in the younger futhark...
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    coins minted in Denmark (curiously, coins stating that the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung was King of England have also been found in Sigtuna). Irish coinage...
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    was married to Gunhild, of the Polish House of Piast. Likewise, his son, Olof, fell in love with Edla, a Slavic woman, and took her as his frilla (concubine)...
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    Cyning (sovereign) Ætheling (prince) Ealdorman (Earl) Hold / High-reeve Thegn Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Churl (free tenant)...
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  • century and onwards. Olof Celsius visited the stone three times, and the last time was in 1726 together with his nephew Anders Celsius. Olof Celsius noted that...
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    Foxall, HDG (1990). Place-Names of Shropshire. Vol. Part I. p. 105. Anderson, Olof (1934). English Hundred Names. p. 159. Kelly, Frederic Festus. "History –...
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  • Curonians on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea, but they are repulsed. King Olof leads Swedish Vikings in retaliation, and attacks the towns of Seeburg and...
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