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Ohthere of Hålogaland (Norwegian:
Ottar fra Hålogaland) was a
Viking Age
Norwegian seafarer known only from an
account of his
travels that he gave to...
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Ohthere, also
Ohtere (Old Norse: Óttarr vendilkráka, Vendelcrow; in
modern Swedish Ottar Vendelkråka), was a semi-legendary king of
Sweden of the house...
- the Kola Peninsula.
According to the
Voyage of
Ohthere (c. 890 CE), the
Norwegian merchant Ottar (
Ohthere)
reported to king
Alfred the
Great that he had...
- gave him gifts: a good king he! This is the
beginning of The
Voyages of
Ohthere and Wulfstan, a
prose text in Old
English dated to the late 9th century...
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tradition calls Ottarshögen from
Ottar also
known as
Ohthere and hög,
meaning mound or barrow.
Ohthere is ****ociated with the
person of that same name in...
- of the
voyages of
Ohthere of Hålogaland and
Wulfstan of Hedeby, who in the 9th
century described the
Sweon and Sweoland.
Ohthere's account is limited...
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according to Beowulf, a
Swedish king, the son of
Ongentheow and the
brother of
Ohthere. He
usurped the
Swedish throne, but was
killed by his
nephew Eadgils, who...
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traveller and trader. His
travel accounts, as well as
those of
another trader,
Ohthere of Hålogaland, were
included in the Old
English Orosius. It is unclear...
- the 6th century.
Beowulf and Old
Norse sources present him as the son of
Ohthere and as
belonging to the
ruling Yngling (Scylfing) dynasty.
These sources...
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Opening of
Ohthere's Old
English account, translated: "
Ohthere told his lord Ælfrede king that he
lived northmost of all Norwegians…"...
