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23/08/2021

GREET YOUR GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ALFRED THE GREAT

Alfred the Great (848/49 – 26 October 899) is a forefather of many members of the Kvenland.org social media community.

Alfred was the king of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and king of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf, who died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, and Æthelred, reigned in turn before him.

After ascending the throne, Alfred spent several years fighting Viking invasions. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington in 878 and made an agreement with the Vikings, creating what was known as the Danelaw in the North of England.

• Danelaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw

Alfred also oversaw the conversion of the Viking leader Guthrum to Christianity. Alfred defended his kingdom against the Vikings' attempt at conquest, becoming the dominant ruler in England. Details of his life are described in a work by the 9th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.

Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be conducted in Old English rather than Latin and improving the legal system and military structure of his realm and his people's quality of life. He was given the epithet "the Great" in the 16th century.

Alfred knew that what today is known as the Baltic Sea, was in his era basically a Finnic/Finno-Ugric inland sea. Accordingly, in 899 Alfred wrote that where Germany then ended in its northernmost part, the Kven Sea ("Qwensae"; Old Finnish: Kainuunmeri; Modern Finnish: Itämeri; Modern English: Baltic Sea) began.

Whereas Alfred successfully defended England against Viking invasions in the 9th century, your other forefather, Sweyn Forkbeard, in 1013 became the first Viking King to rule all of England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard

Sweyn Forkbeard was the father of King Harald II of Denmark, King C**t the Great, and Queen Estrid Svendsdatter.

• Photo: Statue of Alfred the Great at Wantage, Oxfordshire, England.

• On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great

21/05/2021

YOUR GREAT-GRANDFATHER CHARLES MARTEL

Charles Martel (c. 688 – 22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death. He was a son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and Pepin's mistress, a noblewoman named Alpaida, great-grandparents of many members of the Kvenland social media community.

• Photo: 19th-century sculpture at the Palace of Versailles.
• On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel

23/03/2021

HVIDE is a medieval clan, linked to this Facebook site e.g. through the following address: http://HVIDE.org

The clan's origins are in the Viking Age (793–1066) rulers of Denmark, the British Isles, Norway, and what in the aftermath of the Viking Age developed into the kingdom of Sweden.

From the late 15th century onward, the clan's name Hvide has been used as a noble surname by members of at least one surviving branch of the Hvide clan. The name Hvide signifies the color white.

The late Viking Age Danish leader Baron Skjalm Hvide is typically identified as the founder of the Hvide clan. Skjalm Hvide on Wikipedia: http://Skjalm.Hvide.org

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HVIDE is a medieval clan, linked to this Facebook site e.g. through the following address: http://HVIDE.org The clan's origins are in the Viking Age (793–1066) rulers of Denmark, the British Isles, Norway, and what in the aftermath of the Viking Age developed into the kingdom of Sweden. From the late 15th century onward, the clan's name Hvide has been used as a noble surname by members of at least one surviving branch of the Hvide clan. The name Hvide signifies the color white. The late Viking Age Danish leader Baron Skjalm Hvide is typically identified as the founder of the Hvide clan. Skjalm Hvide on Wikipedia: http://Skjalm.Hvide.org

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