danmark Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/danmark Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Travel to Denmark http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-denmark.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-denmark.html#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:32:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228838 DENMARK Emergence of the Danish state; the Viking age 7th and 8th c. The coming of the Danes. The Scandinavian Danes occupy southern Sweden, the islands and Jutland, driving back the West Germanic Heruli, Angles, Saxons and Jutes. 9th-11 th c Formation ofthestate; Christianisation; Viking expeditions. 804-810 King Godfred builds the Danevirke in southern Jutland as a frontier fortification directed against Charlemagne. The Christianisation of Denmark begins in the 9th c. but is not completed until the time of Knut (Canute) the Great. Gorm the Old (c. 900-935) and Harald Bluetooth (935-985) unify Denmark after fierce fighting with local chieftains.

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