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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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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...
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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...
- 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...
-
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...
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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...
- and the term was
therefore used to
refer to
Polabian Slavs like the
Obotrites,
Rugian Slavs, Veleti/Lutici, and
Pomeranian tribes. For
people living...
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daughter of the
Swedish king Olof Skötkonung by his wife
Estrid of the
Obotrites. She is
venerated as a
saint in the
Eastern Orthodox Church. Ingegerd...
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Limes Saxoniae as a
border with the
Obotrites. This
agreement established firm
boundaries between the Franks,
Obotrites, and Danes,
securing peace in the...
- is now
eastern Poland and north-western Ukraine.
Among them were the
Obotrites and
other tribes that
Frankish sources referred to as "Wends". The 11th-century...
