- The Age of the
Sturlungs or the
Sturlung Era (Icelandic: Sturlungaöld [ˈstʏ(r)tluŋkaˌœlt]) was a 42-/44-year
period of
violent internal strife in mid-13th-century...
- The
Sturlungs (Icelandic:
Sturlungar [ˈstʏ(r)tluŋkar̥]) were a
powerful family clan in 13th
century Iceland, in the time of the
Icelandic Commonwealth...
- chieftains. The
internal struggles and
civil strife of the Age of the
Sturlungs led to the
signing of the Old
Covenant in 1262,
which ended the Commonwealth...
-
fortresses and
castles had been
built in Iceland.
During the Age of the
Sturlungs, the
average battle involved fewer than 1000 men, with an
average casualty...
-
early thirteenth century, the
internal conflict known as the age of the
Sturlungs weakened Iceland,
which eventually became subjugated to
Norway over the...
- was the
politically most
influential woman in
Iceland in the Age of the
Sturlungs. She was also a
skald and
listed as such in Skáldatal. Most of what is...
-
Commonwealth had no
official leader. In the
early 13th century, the Age of the
Sturlungs, the
Commonwealth began to
suffer from long
conflicts between warring...
- an
active role in the
armed conflicts in
Iceland during the Age of the
Sturlungs (Icelandic: Sturlungaöld).
Sturla was the son of
Sighvatur Sturluson,...
- Christianity, and
later as
chieftains and parti****nts in the Age of the
Sturlungs civil war. In the 13th century,
Gissur Þorvaldsson,
leader of the Haukdælir...
- by
right Norwegian. So
began the Age of the
Sturlungs, a time of
political strife in Iceland. The
Sturlungs worked to
bring Iceland under Norwegian rule...
