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‘Grimnir’s Sayings’
Grímur Kamban
Gripsholm rune-stone
Groa (dwarf)
Grobin, Latvia
Grønnhaug ship burial
Gruffyd ap Cynan
Guadalquivir (river)
Guðfastr (named on Frösö stone)
Gudmund (in ‘First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbani’)
Gudmund (in
Saga of Gudmund Dyri
)
Gudrid (wife of Thorfinn Karlsefni)
Guillot, Oliver
Gulathing, Norway
Gulathing Law
Gulf of St Lawrence
Gunderedo (Viking leader)
Gunnar of Hlidarendi
Gunnbjørn Ulfsson
Gunnhild (dau. of Cnut)
Gunnhild (wife of Earl Pallig)
Gunnhild, queen, consort of Erik Bloodaxe
Gunnlod (giantess)
Gunnor, countess (wife of Richardof Normandy)
Gunnulv (named on Gredby stone)
Gustafson, Gabriel
Gutagård, Novgorod
Guthrum (later Athelstan)
Alfred, king of Wessex, and
Christianity
Rollo and
Guttorm (nephew of King Horic)
Guy, archbishop of Rouen
Gyda, Harald Finehair’s vow and
Gylfaginning
Hablingbo, Gotland
Hadrian, Pope
Hadstock, Essex
Hafrsfjord, battle of
Hagia Sophia cathedral
Hailka, rune-stone to
al-Hakam, caliph
Håkon(Athelstansfostri/the Good), king of Norway
Athelstan, king of Wessex, and
Christianity
expulsion of Eric Bloodaxe
Håkon, king of Norway
Håkon the Red, king of Sweden
Håkon Eriksson, earl of Lade
Håkon Paulson, earl of Orkney
Håkon Sigurdsson (the Bad), earl of Lade
‘Håkonarmál’
Halfdan (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Halfdan (named in Hagia Sophia graffiti)
Halfdan (Viking leader)
Halfdan, king of Norway
Hall of Sida
Hallfred Ottarson (the Troublesome Skald)
Hallsten, king of Sweden
Hallvard (named on Kuli stone)
Hals, battle of
Halsten Stenkilsson, king of Sweden
Halvdan/Halptani (Danish emissary to Charlemagne)
Halvdan the Black, king in eastern Norway
Hamburg
Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric
Hameltrude (holy virgin)
Hammars picture-stone, Gotland
see also
Stora Hammars picture-stone
Hampshire
Harald (named on Gripsholm stone)
Harald (Klak-Harald), king of Denmark
Borre mounds and
Christianity
Louis the Pious and
Norway and
Harald Bluetooth, king of Denmark
Christianity
Danevirke
in
Egils Saga
Håkon the Good and
Norway and
Ravning Enge bridge
trelleborgs
see also
Jelling stone
Harald Finehair, king of Norway
Christianity
conquests in Britain
death
Ganger Rolf and
gift to King Athelstan
Haraldskvæthi
Iceland and
Olaf Trayggvason and
Harald Gille, king of Norway
Harald Grenske, king in Vik, Norway
Harald Greycloak, king in Norway
Harald Hardrada, king of Norway
Harald Hildetand, king
Harald Svensson, king of Denmark
Haraldskvæthi
Hardeknud (Danish leader)
Harold (attacker of Normandy)
Harold Godwinson, king of England
Harold Harefoot, king of England
Harrogate
Harthacnut, king of Denmark and England
Hartness church
Hastein/Hasting (leader of raid in England)
Hasting (leader of Baltic raids)
Hasting (leader of Mediterranean raid)
Hasting (leader of raids in France)
Hastings
Hastings, battle of
Haugesund, Norway
Hauk Erlendsson
Haustlong
Heathen religion
Birka
Christianity and
England
Iceland
Jól
/Jul/Yule (midwinter feast)
Kiev
Normandy
Norway
Ragnarök
Saxons
skaldic poetry and
songs
see also
divination; funeral rites; gods; horse-flesh; sacrifice
Hebrides
see
Western Isles
Hedeby, Denmark
see also
Danevirke
Heimdall (god)
Helgafell, Iceland
Helgi Bjola
Helgi the Lean
Helgrim (Norwegian emissary)
Hellesdon, Norfolk
Helluland
Hellvi parish, Gotland
Hemming (Danish Viking)
Hemming, king of Denmark
Hengist and Horsa
Henrik, bishop of Lund
Henrik, king of Germany
Henry the Fowler, king of the eastern Franks
Henry of Huntingdon
Herbert, count
Herefordshire
Herigar (Christian convert in Birka)
Herjolfsnæs, Greenland
Hertford
Hertfordshire
Hertzberg, Ebbe
Herulfr/Erulb (son of Murchad mac Máele úin)
Heruli (tribe)
Hervé, archbishop of Reims
Hesketh Grange
Heskeths, Wirral
Hild (mother of Ganger Rolf)
Hildungr/Hildvígr/Hildulfr (named on Tirsted rune-stone)
Hillersjöhällen stone
Hingston Down
Hitardal, Iceland
Hjalti Skeggjason
Hjorleif
see
Leif (Iceland settler)
Hjorleifshofdi, Iceland
Hjórungavág, battle of
Hobro, Denmark
Hofstadir, Iceland
Holck, Per
Holme, battle of
Holmgård
see also
Novgorod
Holmlaug (named on Svinnegarn stone)
Holy River battle
homosexuality
Hóp, Vinland
Hordaland, Norway
Horic/Horik, king of Denmark
Horic the Younger/Horik the Young, king of Denmark
Horit, bishop of Århus
horse-flesh
horses
sacrifice of
in ship burials
Horton, Dorset
Hoskuld (in
Njal’s Saga
)
house-trees
Howth, Ireland
Hrafn the Dueller
Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey
Hrafnkels Saga
Hrungnir (giant)
Hugh, duke of the Franks
Hugh the Great, count of Paris and duke of the Franks
Hugo, count
Hull
Huna (English commander)
Huntingdonshire
Husavik, Iceland
Hwicce, kingdom of
Iaropolk, prince of the Rus
Iberian peninsula
see also
al-Andalus; Portugal; Spain
Ibn al-Atir
Ibn Dihaya
Ibn Fadlan
Ibn al-Idari
Ibn Rustah
Ibn Said
Iceland
althing
astronomical knowledge
calendar
Christianity: conversion ; Thangbrand’s mission
heathen religion
horses
Irish Christians in
law
in Ottar’s journey
sacrifice
St Olav dedications
ships
thing
meetings
trade with England
Igor, ruler of the Rus
Île de Groix
Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Inchmarnock
Inden monastery
Indian Ocean
Ingamund/Ingimund (Viking leader)
Inge the Old, king of Sweden
Ingolf (Iceland settler)
Ingolfshofdi, Iceland
Ingstad, Helge and Stine
Ingvar (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
see also
Ivar the Boneless
Ingvar the Far-Travelled
Inuit (Eskimos)
Iona
Ipswich, England
Iran
see
Persia
Ire, Gotland
Ireland
black men in
Christianity
Helgi the Lean
Isle of Man and
in Ottar’s journey
St Olav dedications
Skuldelev ship materials
Viking colonization
Viking raids from
Viking raids on
see also
Clontarf, battle of; Cork; Dublin; Limerick; Skellig Michael; Ulster king-making ceremony; Waterford; Wexford
Irmensul
Isla Menor, Spain
Islamic countries
Isle of Man
burials
Harald Finehair and
inscriptions
place-names
St Olav dedications
sea battle off
thing
meetings
York and
Islendingabok
Istanbul
see
Constantinople
Italy
Itil (Khazar capital)
Ivan (son of Tury)
Ivar, king of Dublin
Ivar the Boneless
see also
Ingvar (‘Great Heathen Army’ leader)
Ivar the Far-Travelled, king of the Swedes
Ivar Bardarson
Jæren, Norway
Jakob Olofsson
see
Anund Jakob (Olofsson), king in Sweden
Jämtland, Sweden
Jaroslav, prince in Kiev
Jarrow monastery
Jelling monument
Jelling stone
Jelling style
Jeufosse island, France
Jofrid (wife of Thorstein Egilsson)
John, Pope
John, Pope
John, Pope
Jokul (in
Vatnsdaela Saga
)
Jól
(midwinter feast)
Jomsborg
Jomsvikings
Jord (giantess)
Jørgensen, Lars
Jorund the Christian
Judith of Bavaria
Julianehåb, Greenland
Jumièges monastery
Jumne
Jutland, Denmark
see also
Århus; Danevirke; Hedeby; Jelling monument; Ribe
K’agssiarssuk
see
Brattahlid
Kakortok, Greenland
Kalf (in
Saga of Hallfred the Troublesome Skald
)
Kar the Old
Karlevi rune-stone
Karmøy, Norway
see also
Avaldsnes
Kathlin/Kathleen (dau. of Ganger Rolf)
Katla (Christian woman)
Kaupang, Norway
see also
Sciringsheal
Kenel Cunill, king-making ceremony
kennings
Kent
see also
Rochester; Sandwich; Sheppey
Keswick
Ketil (father of Rollo)
Ketil (in Ingvar the Far-Travelled’s expedition)
Ketil the Fool
Ketilbjørn Ketilsson
Khazar tribe
Kholopij gorodok
/
Drelleborch
Kiev
Astrid (mother of Olaf Tryggvason) in
Harald Hardrada in
Heathen religion
Ingvar the Far-Travelled in
language
settlement
trade route
Kievan state
see also
Rus
Kildare, Ireland
Kimmikut, Baffin Island
King Hrolf and his Champions
Kingigtorssuaq Island
kings
Ireland
role in sacrifice
Kjalarnes
thing
, Iceland
Kjalarness, Iceland
Kjølbye-Biddle, Birthe
Klak-Harald
see
Harald (Klak-Harald), king of Denmark
knarr see
trading vessels (
knarr
)
Koblenz, castle of
Kolskeggur (brother of Gunnar)
Krag, Claus
Kräklingbo, Gotland
Krakow
Krarios (ford)
Kristni Saga
Kuli stone
Kverkarhellir, Iceland
La Coruña
Labrador
see also
Ungava Bay
Lade, Norway
Ladoga
see also
Lake Ladoga; Staraja Ladoga
Læborgsstenen
Laithlinn
see
Lochlainn
Lake District
see also
Cumbria
Lake Ilmen
Lake Ladoga
see also
Staraja Ladoga
Lake Tissø site
Lancashire
Lanfranc (cleric)
Langeland, Denmark
language
see also
place-names; runes
L’Anse aux Meadows
Lapps
see
Sami
Lärbro, Gotland
Largs, Battle of
Latvia
law
Cnut’s
on deformed children
England
Frankish
homosexuality
Iceland
Ireland
Kent
Normandy
Norway
sacrifice and
slaves and
Sweden
see also
crime and punishment
Laxey (river), Isle of Man
‘Lay of Harbard, The’
‘Lay of Sigrdrifa, The’
Leanti rapids

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