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Olaf the Peacock or Olaf Hoskuldsson (Old Norse: Óláfr "pái" Hǫskuldsson; Modern Icelandic: Ólafur "pái" Höskuldsson; c. 938–1006) was a merchant and chieftain of the early Icelandic Commonwealth, who was nicknamed "the Peacock" because of his proud bearing and magnificent wardrobe.[1]

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  1. 63 relations: Althing, Ari Thorgilsson, Úlfr Uggason, Bolli Þorleiksson, Brännö, Concubinage, Draugr, Egil's Saga, Egill Skallagrímsson, Feud, Fosterage, Funeral, Goidelic languages, Gothi, Gray Goose Laws, Grettis saga, Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Gunnar Hámundarson, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Haakon Sigurdsson, Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir, Harald Greycloak, Húsdrápa, Hird, Hlíðarendi, Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson, Icelandic Commonwealth, Icelandic language, Indian peafowl, Inheritance, Jesse Byock, Jorunn Bjarnadottir, Kievan Rus', Kjartan, Kormáks saga, Landnámabók, Laxárdalur, Laxdæla saga, Lee M. Hollander, Longphort, Magnus Magnusson, Mark (unit), Melkorka, Melkorkustaðir, Muirchertach mac Néill, Njáls saga, Norse–Gaels, Norway, Nuclear family, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. 1006 deaths
  3. 10th-century Icelandic people
  4. 11th-century Icelandic people
  5. Goðar
  6. Icelandic people of Irish descent

Althing

The i (general meeting), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the supreme national parliament of Iceland.

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Ari Thorgilsson

Ari Þorgilsson (1067/1068 – 9 November 1148; Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic:; also anglicized Ari Thorgilsson) was Iceland's most prominent medieval chronicler. Olaf the Peacock and Ari Thorgilsson are 11th-century Icelandic people.

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Úlfr Uggason

Úlfr Uggason (Modern Icelandic: Úlfur Uggason) was an Icelandic skald who lived in the last part of the tenth century.

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Bolli Þorleiksson

Bolli Þorleiksson (also Bolli Thorleiksson; Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic) was a key historical character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, which recounts the history of the People of Laxárdalur. Olaf the Peacock and Bolli Þorleiksson are 10th-century Icelandic people.

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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.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.

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Draugr

The draugr or draug (draugr, plural draugar; modern draugur, dreygur, and Danish, Swedish, and draug) is an undead creature from the Scandinavian saga literature and folktales.

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Egil's Saga

Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Egils saga) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.

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Egill Skallagrímsson

Egil Skallagrímsson (Egill Skallagrímsson; Modern Icelandic:; 904 995) was a Viking Age war poet, sorcerer, berserker, and farmer.

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Feud

A feud, also known in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, private war, or mob war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans.

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Fosterage

Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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Gothi

Gothi or goði (plural goðar, fem. gyðja; Old Norse: guþi) was a position of political and social prominence in the Icelandic Commonwealth. Olaf the Peacock and Gothi are goðar.

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Gray Goose Laws

The Gray (Grey) Goose Laws (Grágás) are a collection of laws from the Icelandic Commonwealth period.

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Grettis saga

Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar (modern, reconstructed), also known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong, is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir

Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic: Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir; 10th century – 11th century), was an Icelandic woman who was famed for her great wisdom and beauty. Olaf the Peacock and Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir are 10th-century Icelandic people and 11th-century Icelandic people.

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Gunnar Hámundarson

Gunnar Hámundarson was a 10th-century Icelandic chieftain. Olaf the Peacock and Gunnar Hámundarson are goðar.

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Gunnhild, Mother of Kings

Gunnhildr konungamóðir (mother of kings) or Gunnhildr Gormsdóttir, whose name is often Anglicised as Gunnhild (c. 910 – c. 980), is a quasi-historical figure who appears in the Icelandic Sagas, according to which she was the wife of Eric Bloodaxe (King of Norway 930–934, King of Orkney c.

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Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu or the Saga of Gunnlaugur Serpent-Tongue is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Haakon Sigurdsson

Haakon Sigurdsson (Hákon Sigurðarson, Håkon Sigurdsson; 937–995), known as Haakon Jarl (Old Norse: Hákon jarl), was the de facto ruler of Norway from about 975 to 995. Olaf the Peacock and Haakon Sigurdsson are 930s births.

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Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir

Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir was a 10th-century Icelandic woman and is a major character in Njáls saga. Olaf the Peacock and Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir are 10th-century Icelandic people.

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Harald Greycloak

Harald Greycloak (Old Norse: Haraldr gráfeldr, lit. "Harald Grey-hide"; Norwegian: Harald Gråfell; Danish: Harald Gråfeld; c. 935 – c. 970) was a king of Norway from the Fairhair dynasty. Olaf the Peacock and Harald Greycloak are 930s births.

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Húsdrápa

Húsdrápa (Old Norse: 'House-Lay') is a skaldic poem partially preserved in the Prose Edda where disjoint stanzas of it are quoted.

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Hird

The hird (also named "Håndgangne Menn" in Norwegian), in Scandinavian history, was originally an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.

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Hlíðarendi

Hlíðarendi is a famous place in Icelandic historical literature.

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Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson

Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson (Old Norse: Hǫskuldr Dala-Kollsson; Modern Icelandic: Höskuldur Dala-Kollsson; c. 910–965) was an Icelandic gothi or chieftain of the early Icelandic Commonwealth period. Olaf the Peacock and Hoskuld Dala-Kollsson are 10th-century Icelandic people and goðar.

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Icelandic Commonwealth

The Icelandic Commonwealth, also known as the Icelandic Free State, was the political unit existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing (Alþingi) in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king with the Old Covenant in 1262.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.

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Indian peafowl

The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus), also known as the common peafowl or blue peafowl, is a peafowl species native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

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Jesse Byock

Jesse L. Byock (born 1945) is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Jorunn Bjarnadottir

Jórunn Bjarnadóttir (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic) is a female character who appears in Laxdœla saga, one of the Icelandic family sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur). Olaf the Peacock and Jorunn Bjarnadottir are 10th-century Icelandic people.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kjartan

Kjartan (Icelandic:; Faroese:; Norwegian) is a masculine given name found in the Nordic countries, most prominently in Iceland and Norway.

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Kormáks saga

Kormáks saga (Old Norse pronunciation) is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Landnámabók

Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.

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Laxárdalur

Laxárdalur is a valley in Dalasýsla in northwestern Iceland, formed by the.

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Laxdæla saga

Laxdæla saga, also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation) or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalur, is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Lee M. Hollander

Lee Milton Hollander (November 8, 1880 – October 19, 1972) was an American philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies.

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Longphort

A longphort (Ir. plur. longphuirt) is a term used in Ireland for a Viking ship enclosureConnolly S.J (1998).

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Magnus Magnusson

Magnus Magnusson, (born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter.

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Mark (unit)

The Mark (from Middle High German: Marc, march, brand) is originally a medieval weight or mass unit, which supplanted the pound weight as a precious metals and coinage weight in parts of Europe in the 11th century.

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Melkorka

Melkorka (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic) is the name given in Landnámabók and Laxdæla saga for the Irish mother of the Icelandic goði Ólafr Höskuldsson. Olaf the Peacock and Melkorka are 10th-century Icelandic people.

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Melkorkustaðir

Melkorkustead (Old Norse: Melkorkustaðir; Modern Icelandic) was a farm in western Iceland during the Icelandic Commonwealth period.

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Muirchertach mac Néill

Muirchertach mac Néill (died 26 February 943), called Muirchertach of the Leather Cloaks (Muirchertach na Cochall Craicinn), was a King of Ailech.

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Njáls saga

Njáls saga, also Njála, or Brennu-Njáls saga (Which can be translated as The Story of Burnt Njáll, or The Saga of Njáll the Burner), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

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Norse–Gaels

The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nuclear family

A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

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Nursemaid

A nursemaid (or nursery maid) is a mostly historical term for a female domestic worker who cares for children within a large household.

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Oddr Snorrason

Oddr Snorrason whose name is also sometimes Anglicized as Odd Snorrason was a 12th-century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyraklaustur monastery (Þingeyrarklaustur).

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Olaf Feilan

Olaf Feilan Thorsteinsson (Old Norse: Óláfr "feilan" Þorsteinsson, Modern Icelandic: Ólafur "feilan" Þorsteinsson; c. 890–940) was an Icelandic gothi of the Settlement period. Olaf the Peacock and Olaf Feilan are 10th-century Icelandic people and goðar.

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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.

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Old Norse poetry

Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in the Old Norse language, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end of the 13th century.

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Outlaw

An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law.

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Petty kingdom

A petty kingdom is a kingdom described as minor or "petty" (from the French 'petit' meaning small) by contrast to an empire or unified kingdom that either preceded or succeeded it (e.g. the numerous kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England unified into the Kingdom of England in the 10th century, or the numerous Gaelic kingdoms of Ireland as the Kingdom of Ireland in the 16th century).

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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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Snorri Goði

Snorri Þorgrímsson (Old Norse:; Modern Icelandic) or Snorri Goði (O.N.:; M.I.:; 963–1031) was a prominent chieftain in Western Iceland, who featured in a number of Icelandic sagas. Olaf the Peacock and Snorri Goði are 10th-century Icelandic people, 11th-century Icelandic people and goðar.

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Thorgerd Egilsdottir

Thorgerd Egilsdottir (Old Norse: Þorgerðr Egilsdóttir; Modern Icelandic: Þorgerður Egilsdóttir) was an Icelandic woman of the tenth century. Olaf the Peacock and Thorgerd Egilsdottir are 10th-century Icelandic people.

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Thorstein the Red

Thorstein the Red or Thorstein Olafsson was a viking chieftain who flourished in late ninth-century Scotland.

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Thrall

A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age.

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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.

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See also

1006 deaths

10th-century Icelandic people

11th-century Icelandic people

Goðar

Icelandic people of Irish descent

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_the_Peacock

Also known as Olaf Hoskuldsson, Olaf Pai, Ólafr pái.

, Nursemaid, Oddr Snorrason, Olaf Feilan, Old Norse, Old Norse poetry, Outlaw, Petty kingdom, Skald, Snorri Goði, Thorgerd Egilsdottir, Thorstein the Red, Thrall, Vikings.