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Halfdan ("half Dane") is an Old
Norse masculine given name. In
Beowulf it is
spelled Healfdene, and in
Latin sources Haldan. It may
refer to: Mythical...
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Halfdan Ragnarsson (Old Norse: Hálfdan; Old English:
Halfdene or Healfdene; Old Irish: Albann; died 877) was a
Viking leader and a
commander of the Great...
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recorded by
Symeon of Durham, who writes, that in 876: The
pagan king
Halfdene divided between himself and his
followers the
country of the Northumbrians...
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Sancto Cuthberto.
Symeon of
Durham lists the
leaders of the
Viking army as "
Halfdene [Halfdann],
Inguar [Ingvar], Hubba, Beicsecg, Guthrun,
Oscytell [Ketill]...
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Chronicle recorded: And the same
winter the
brother of
Hingwar and of
Halfdene came with twenty-three
ships to
Devonshire in Wes****; and he was there...
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Halfdan as its
first king.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle:
Halfdene apportioned the
lands of North-humbria: and they
thenceforth continued...
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Sancto Cuthberto.
Symeon of
Durham lists the
leaders of the
Viking army as "
Halfdene, Inguar, Hubba, Beicsecg, Guthrun, Oscytell, Amund,
Sidroc and another...
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following year the army's two
heathen kings are
called Bachsecg and
Halfdene (Halfdan Ragnarsson). In 870 Ímar was
campaigning with his
brother Amlaíb...
- name
Thornaby came into
existence about AD 800 when the land was
given by
Halfdene (Halfdan Ragnarsson), King of the Danes, to Thormod, one of his noblemen...
- Cuthbert's
shrine seems to have
escaped damage. In 875 the
Danish leader Halfdene (Halfdan Ragnarsson), who
shared with his
brother Ivar the
Boneless the...
