Hedeby, the Glossary
Hedeby (Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.[1]
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- Former populated places in Denmark
- Former populated places in Germany
- History of Schleswig-Holstein
Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler.
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899.
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Angeln
Angeln (Danish: Angel) is a peninsula on the Baltic coast of Jutland, in the Bay of Kiel.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Æthelweard (historian)
Æthelweard (also Ethelward; d.) was an ealdorman and the author of a Latin version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle known as the Chronicon Æthelweardi.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Birka
Birka (Birca in medieval sources), on the island of Björkö (lit. "Birch Island") in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of the European continent and the Orient.
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Brännö
Brännö is an island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago and a locality situated in Göteborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
Bukhara slave trade
The Bukhara slave trade refers to the historical slave trade conducted in the city of Bukhara in Central Asia (present day Uzbekistan) from antiquity until the 19th century.
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Busdorf
Busdorf (Bustrup) is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Corduroy road
A corduroy road or log road is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area.
Danelaw
The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Danelagen; Dena lagu) was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
Danes
Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.
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Danevirke
The Danevirke or Danework (modern Danish spelling: Dannevirke; in Old Norse; Danavirki, in German; Danewerk, literally meaning earthwork of the Danes) is a system of Danish fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hedeby and Danevirke are history of Schleswig-Holstein and world Heritage Sites in Germany.
Dirham
The dirham, dirhem or drahm (درهم) is a unit of currency and of mass.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland. Hedeby and Dublin are Viking Age populated places.
Duchy of Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig (Hertugdømmet Slesvig; Herzogtum Schleswig; Hartogdom Sleswig; Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland) covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km (45 mi) south of the current border between Germany and Denmark. Hedeby and duchy of Schleswig are history of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Early Slavs
The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle Ages.
Eider (river)
The Eider (Eider; Ejderen; Latin: Egdor or Eidora) is the longest river in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Einhard
Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; E(g)inhardus; 775 – 14 March 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Förden and East Jutland Fjorde
The eastern coast of the Jutland Peninsula, consisting of Danish Jutland and German Schleswig-Holstein features a type of narrow bay called Förde (plural: Förden) in German and fjord (plural fjorde) in Danish.
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Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Gudfred
Gudfred was a ninth century Danish king who reigned from at least 804 to 810.
Haddeby
Haddeby is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Haddebyer Noor
Haddebyer Noor (Haddeby Nor or Hedeby Nor) is a lake – formerly a small arm of the Schlei inlet of the Baltic Sea – in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.
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Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.
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Harald Hardrada
Harald Sigurdsson (– 25 September 1066), also known as Harald III of Norway and given the epithet Hardrada in the sagas, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066.
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Heath
A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.
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Hedeby 1
The Hedeby 1, also known as the Ship from Haithabu Harbour, was a Viking longship that was excavated from the harbor of Hedeby, a Viking trading center located near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Hedeby stones
The Hedeby stones are four runestones from the 10th century found at the town of Hedeby in Northern Germany.
Hedeby Viking Museum
The Hedeby Viking Museum (Vikingemuseum Hedeby) (Wikinger Museum Haithabu) is a museum near the site of Hedeby, a former medieval city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany focusing on the Viking Age history of the region. Hedeby and Hedeby Viking Museum are Archaeological sites in Germany and history of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Ibrahim ibn Yaqub
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (إبراهيمبن يعقوب Ibrâhîm ibn Ya'qûb al-Ṭarṭûshi or al-Ṭurṭûshî; אברהם בן יעקב, Avraham ben Yaʿakov; 961–62) was a 10th-century Hispano-Arabic, Sephardi Jewish traveler, probably a merchant, who may have also engaged in diplomacy and espionage.
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Jelling
Jelling is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 3,853 (1 January 2024), located in Jelling Parish, approximately 10 km northwest of Vejle. Hedeby and Jelling are Viking Age populated places.
Jutland
Jutland (Jylland, Jyske Halvø or Cimbriske Halvø; Jütland, Kimbrische Halbinsel or Jütische Halbinsel) is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).
Khazar slave trade
The Khazar slave trade took place in the Khazar Khaganate in Central Asia (in modern Kazakhstan).
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Khwarazm
Khwarazm (Hwârazmiya; خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or Chorasmia is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by the Karakum Desert, and on the west by the Ustyurt Plateau.
Lübeck
Lübeck (Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek ˈlyːbeːk; Latin: Lubeca), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. Hedeby and Lübeck are world Heritage Sites in Germany.
Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
Looting
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
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Ohthere of Hålogaland
Ohthere of Hålogaland (Ottar fra Hålogaland) was a Viking Age Norwegian seafarer known only from an account of his travels that he gave to King Alfred (r. 871–99) of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in about 890 AD.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
Olof the Brash
Olof was, according to Adam of Bremen, a Swedish chieftain who conquered Denmark c. 900 and founded the House of Olaf.
Orosius
Paulus Orosius (born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.
Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen
The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Fürsterzbistum Bremen) — not to be confused with the modern Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994 — was an ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Duchy of Bremen (Herzogtum Bremen).
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Reric
Reric or Rerik was one of the Viking Age multi-ethnic Slavic-Scandinavian emporia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, located near Wismar in the present-day German state of Mecklenburg-VorpommernOle Harck, Christian Lübke, Zwischen Reric und Bornhöved: Die Beziehungen zwischen den Dänen und ihren slawischen Nachbarn vom 9. Hedeby and Reric are Archaeological sites in Germany and former populated places in Germany.
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Ribe
Ribe is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,295 (2024). Hedeby and Ribe are Viking Age populated places.
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Rundata
The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base (Samnordisk runtextdatabas) is a project involving the creation and maintenance of a database of transliterated runic inscriptions.
Runestone
A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock.
Rurik
Rurik (also spelled Rorik, Riurik or Ryurik; Rjurikŭ; Hrøríkʀ; died 879) was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who, according to tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862.
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Sambia Peninsula
Sambia (translit) or Samland (translit) or Kaliningrad Peninsula (official name, Калининградский полуостров, Kaliningradsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea.
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Saxon Wars
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the thirty-three years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of tribesmen was defeated.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Schlei
The Schlei (Slien or Slesvig Fjord) is a narrow inlet of the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.
Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig (Slesvig; South Jutlandic: Sljasvig; Sleswig) is a town in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Schleswig-Flensburg
Schleswig-Flensburg (Slesvig-Flensborg) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (Slesvig-Holsten; Sleswig-Holsteen; Slaswik-Holstiinj; Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.
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Schwansen
Schwansen (Svans or Svansø, meaning "swan island/peninsula") is a peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, protruding into the Baltic Sea.
Sigtrygg Gnupasson
Sigtrygg Gnupasson was semi-legendary a king of Denmark of the House of Olaf who ruled in the 10th century, according to Adam of Bremen.
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Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.
Skald
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet") is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry.
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Slavery in al-Andalus
Slavery was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the 15th century.
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Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
Chattel slavery was a major part of society, culture and economy in the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258), which during its history included most of the Middle East.
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Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (Old Norse:;; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Stone of Eric
The Stone of Eric, listed as DR 1 in the Rundata catalog, is a memorial runestone that was found in Northern Germany.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Sweyn II of Denmark
Sweyn Estridsson Ulfsson (Sveinn Ástríðarson, Svend Estridsen; – 28 April 1076) was King of Denmark (being Sweyn II) from 1047 until his death in 1076.
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Treene (river)
The Treene (Trenen) is a river, hydrologically and nominally long, in Southern Schleswig in the north of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Uppåkra
Uppåkra is a village and parish in Staffanstorp Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden, located five kilometres south of Lund. Hedeby and Uppåkra are Viking Age populated places.
Viking Age
The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.
Viking ship
Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland (lit) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Hedeby and Vinland are Viking Age populated places.
Volga Bulgarian slave trade
The Volga Bulgarian slave trade took place in the Volga Bulgar Emirate in Central Asia (in modern Eastern Russia).
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Volga trade route
In the Middle Ages, the Volga trade route connected Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia with the Caspian Sea and the Sasanian Empire, via the Volga River.
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West Slavs
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages.
Wolin
Wolin (Wollin) is a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, just off the Polish coast.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Wulfstan of Hedeby
Wulfstan of Hedeby was a late ninth-century traveller and trader.
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Younger Futhark
The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a "transitional period" during the 7th and 8th centuries.
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See also
Former populated places in Denmark
Former populated places in Germany
- Alcimoennis
- Alte Burg (Langenenslingen)
- Altes Lager (Menzlin)
- Bardowiek
- Biesterfeld
- Carlsburg, Weser
- Dierkow
- Donnersberg
- Eidum
- Feddersen Wierde
- Glauberg
- Hedeby
- Heidengraben
- Heuneburg
- Ipf (mountain)
- Königsaue
- Langweiler (archaeological site)
- Milseburg
- Muldenhammer (Eibenstock)
- Nievoldhagen
- Oppidum of Manching
- Reric
- Rethra
- Rockenfeld
- Rungholt
- Winnefeld
History of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1872 Baltic Sea flood
- All Saints' Day Flood of 1436
- Austro-Prussian War
- Büdelsdorf (enclosure)
- Beltring Hundred
- Danevirke
- Danish March
- Die Heimat (journal)
- Duchy of Saxony
- Duchy of Schleswig
- Edoms Hundred
- Eidum
- Gau Schleswig-Holstein
- Gottorf Castle
- Hedeby
- Hedeby Viking Museum
- History of Lübeck
- History of Schleswig-Holstein
- Holstein
- Kiel Castle
- Lundenberg Hundred
- Nordic Bronze Age
- Pellworm Hundred
- Persecution of the Jews in Schleswig-Holstein (1933–1945)
- Polabian Slavs
- Rungholt
- Schleswig Regiment of Foot
- Schleswig-Holstein speciethaler
- Skamlingsbanken
- St. Lucia's flood
- Talking Gravestones of Amrum
- Talking Gravestones of Föhr
- Treaty of Heiligen
- Treaty of Nyborg (1386)
- Treaty of Ribe
- Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo
- Unitary State (Denmark)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby
Also known as Haithabu, Heiðabýr.
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