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awarded to the
Obotrites in 804, as a
reward for
their victory. This
however was soon
reverted through an
invasion of the Danes. The
Obotrite regnal style...
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three main tribes, the
Obotrites, the Veleti, and the
Lusatian Sorbs. The main
tribes of the
Obotritic confederation were the
Obotrites proper (Wismar Bay...
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Estrid of the
Obotrites (c. 979 – 1035) was
Queen of
Sweden in the
Viking age, a West
Slavic princess married to the King of Sweden, Olof Skötkonung c...
- and the term was
therefore used to
refer to
Polabian Slavs like the
Obotrites,
Rugian Slavs, Veleti/Lutici, and
Pomeranian tribes. For
people living...
-
after the 6th
century (see Völkerwanderung), also
known as
Wends and
Obotrites. They
arrived about A.D. 700 and the Pomeranian/Kashubian (Slavic) name...
-
descended linearly from the
princes (or kings) of a
Slavic tribe, the
Obotrites, and had its
original residence in a
castle (Mecklenburg) in Dorf Mecklenburg...
- Tove of the
Obotrites, also
called Tova, Tofa or Thora, (10th century) was a
Slavic princess and a
Danish Viking Age
queen consort, the
spouse of King...
- also
known by the name Witzlаus was the
prince of the
confederation of
Obotrites. As an ally of
Charlemagne in his war
against the
Saxons Witzan marched...
-
Estrid (Old Norse: Æstriðr, Ástríðr) was a rich and
powerful 11th-century
Swedish woman whose long
family saga has been
recorded on five or six runestones...
- Udo of the
Obotrites in 1028, his son
Gottschalk was
taken to be
raised at the
court of
Canute the
Great of Denmark.
Ratibor led the
Obotrite confederacy...
