Posted on 12/27/2014 9:35:55 AM PST by Beowulf9
A town that was briefly capital of England is looking to make more of its links with a Viking king who ruled for just 40 days.
Sweyn Forkbeard, the nation's shortest reigning monarch, began his rule on Christmas Day, 1001 years ago in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Officials want to twin the town with Sweyn's birthplace of Roskilde, Denmark and stage a festival.
They also hope to mark his death with a re-enactment of a Viking burial.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Gee, I knew they said 1066 was the last successful foreign invasion of England, I just didn’t realize it happened so often before that
Thanks Beowulf9.
It’s also not true. Most recently William and Mary were invited in by Parliament to overthrow James II (VIIth of Scotland) who was trying to revive Catholicism. Since they had to raise an army outside and land by ship, still counts.
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A base canard. Jimmy was protestant enough for any reasonable man. It's just that he was perhaps a bit overly fond of ceremony.
He was definitely opposed by the sort of non-conforming teetotaling bluenose bible-beating bunko artists who would throw us all in jail for celebrating ...gasp ...Christmas!
I must get to church now. The snakes get kind of rasty if they ain't fed reglar.
So, it’s not true, lol.
I always thought the Viking tradition was to build a replica longship, put the corpse aboard, set it afire and shove it off.
One longs for the day when a bunch of Vikings might get together, build a replica of the Queen Mary, and cruise to Bermuda.
They also hope to mark his death with a re-enactment of a Viking burial.
Seems rather inappropriate since Sweyn himself did not have a Viking burial.
After his death, Sweyn Forkbeard was taken to York, before being taken back to his Danish birthplace for burial. He is said to have been laid to rest in a wooden church on the site of Roskilde Cathedral
“He was definitely opposed by the sort of non-conforming teetotaling bluenose bible-beating bunko artists who would throw us all in jail for celebrating ...gasp ...Christmas! “
Those would be your yankee Puritan neighbors in Massachusetts. Christmas was routinely celebrated in Virginia and other points south.
Not exactly. They were invited by the Immortal Seven politicians, six nobles and a bishop.
They were of course representative of a lot more people, in Parliament and the nation.
William landed in November, but wasn't proclaimed King by Parliament (one that may not have been strictly legal, at that) until late in February.
James was indisputably and openly a Catholic. Your remarks apply to his Dad, Charles I, who was devoutly Anglican.
James converted to Catholicism in 1868, though it wasn’t made public till 1673.
His children were raised Protestant.
When this openly Catholic king came to the throne in 1685, Protestant Englishmen were willing to put up with rule by a Catholic, since James was to spring chicken and would be succeeded by one of his Protestant daughters.
Then James’ second wife had a son, who became heir over his much older sisters. This brought the prospect of a Catholic dynasty, not just a Catholic king. The Glorious Revolution sonn followed.
The GR is very nearly unknown in this country, which is kind of odd. The American Revolution was fought to protect the rights Englishment gained in the GR. Our Bill of Rights is obviously patterned on the English version of 1689.
My best friend’s last name is Rosenkilde.
Jewish Viking?
;)
Nope. Danish Lutherans ( in the old country).
Thanks!
Pursuant to what Pontiac wrote, I think there was a fairly recent story about the excavation of Sveyn’s capital in Denmark, could be way off though.
The Viking burials in the pagan era consisted of ship burials, either an actual ship with grave goods and the body (and generally one or more servants, made dead for the occasion), and the outline of the ship laid in basically megalithic slabs, then covered with a burial mound. The Christian Viking kings took to much simpler burials in churches and churchyards.
Here’s the sole documented Viking king pyre:
http://thornews.com/2012/05/12/a-viking-burial-described-by-arab-writer-ahmad-ibn-fadlan/
Don’t even *ask* how they do the circumcisions...
Sweyn Forkbeard: England’s forgotten Viking king
BBC News | David McKenna
Posted on 12/30/2013 6:09:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3106763/posts
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-25341754
possible royal burial at Roskilde Cathedral:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71586000/jpg/_71586203_foto.jpg
Bluetooth’s 970 AD monument commemorating conversion of Denmark to Christianity:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71708000/jpg/_71708531_71708530.jpg
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