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Some handy gobbet facts (maybe) (29 cards)
Archbishop Osmund
Possibly Osmund of Ely who was sent to Bremen by Sigefrid of Norway and then went to Sweden. This Osmund returned to England in the 1060s. Adam of Bremen mentioned two Osmunds, one ‘acephalum’, the other an Englishman and a nephew of Sigfrid.
Exiled archbishops
Eysteinn exiled himself to Bury St. Edmunds before returning to Trondheim and adding to the church there in English style.
Jelling stone
Winchester-style art
Svein Forkbeard’s stone masons
English stone masons built churches in Roskilde
Saints under Cnut
Cult of St. Botolf (East Anglia) becomes popular in Denmark.
1100 cathedral chapter
Founded at Odense in the form of a Benedictine house staffed by monks from Evesham.
Cult of St. Cnut
Maintained by monks from Evesham (Odense). Ailnoth writes the vita and passio of St.Cnut
Olaf Tryggvason’s foster-father
AEthelred II
Olaf Haraldsson’s bishops
Grimkell, Bernhard, and Rodolf were English (Rodolf Norman)
Kuli stone
English loan-word ‘kristintumr’ tentative dating c.1034 based on associated causeway
Wulfstan rune stone
inscription with the Wulfstanian phrase ‘kous þaka’ (Godes þances). This is ungrammatical Old Norse, instead a direct transliteration of the Old English.
Cistercian abbots
Lysekloster and Hovedoya were daughter foundations of Fountains Abbey and Kirkstead Abbey (Yorkshire) in the 1140s- brought own craftsmen
Ari and English books
Ari uses the matyrdom of St.Edmund to date the settlement of Iceland and references Edmund’s saga. Ari never left Iceland so English books were travelling to him.
Ailnoth
Ailnoth left England after the Norman Conquest and wrote about St.Cnut from Odense.
Michael Gelting
Argues that Poppo persuaded Harald Bluetooth that Christianity had lots to offer a king seeking to centralise power.
Cnut the Great and HB
Acknowledges the authority of Hamburg-Bremen as one of the conditions of the marriage of his daughter to the son of Conrad II.
Adam and Uppsala
Adam describes a great heathen temple at Uppsala, possibly inspired by house-shapes Celtic reliquary shrines. Post holes from Gudme indicate that some parts of buildings could have been gilded. A rune stone dating to the second half of the eleventh century used to stand among the mounds at the Royal manor at Gamla Uppsala. Probably Christian like the rest of the Uppland stones.
English manuscripts
20 fragments and 4 complete or near-complete mss written in English script, or a close imitation, have come to light in Scandinavian libraries. Abrams: “it is noteworthy that they point to no known scriptoria in England”
Vita ch.10
Anskar was travelling to Sweden on his first mission when they were attacked by pirates. ‘the merchants with whom they were travelling defended themselves vigorously.”
Turholt
described by Rimbert as a necessary grant to Anskar on the grounds that his bishopric was based in a dangerous and unstable region.
Drogereit
archaeological evidence shows no break in habitation of Bremen during the 9th century raising questions about the veracity of Rimbert’s account of an attack on Hamburg.
Njals saga
Hall wants the angel Michael as a friend. Thangbrand promises that he will become so if Hall is baptised. Syncretism: Saints adopt roles of pagan gods. Written 1280.
Gulaþing law
If a man has buried a body in a mound or a heap of stones, he shall disinter it and pay three oras to the bishop
Egils saga
Aethelstan asked Thorolf and Egil to accept ‘preliminary baptism as was the custom in those days both for merchants and mercenaries serving Christian rulers.’
