According to Paul the Deacon's 8th century work Historia Langobardorum, the Langobards migrated southward from Scandinavia led by Ibur and Aio, while Saxo Grammaticus records in his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum that this migration was prompted by Aggi and Ebbi.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Ragnvald was murdered by supporters of Magnus, who then won the realm (" imperium ") as King of Sweden.

According to the contemporary sources of Christian missionaries of the early Middle Ages, particularly of Saxo Grammaticus who gave a detailed account of Svetovid's great temple on the island of Rügen, the pagan Slavs held a great festival each summer in honor of Svetovid.

According to the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, he got the nickname because he was forced to flee from an attack in his bare feet.

According to various chronicles ( i. e. Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and Chronica Slavorum by Helmold ), the temple at Jaromarsburg contained a giant wooden statue of Svantevit depicting him with four heads ( or one head with four faces ) and a horn of abundance.

According to Gesta Danorum ( book 7 ), by Saxo Grammaticus, Hring was the son of the Swedish king Ingjald ( Ingild ) and the maternal nephew of the Danish king Harald Wartooth.

According to the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, Sigurd Ring belonged to the Ynglings and he was the son of Ingjald.

According to Saxo, Lotherus is father of the famous hero Skioldus.

According to the Chronicon Lethrense and Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( Book 2 ), Halfdan had two brothers named Ro and Skat who also sought the throne.

According to Starbäck and Bäckström, Saxo Grammaticus tells a related story in Gesta Danorum.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, both hosts prepared for seven years, and mustered armies of 200 000 men.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, 300 shieldmaidens fought on the Danish side at the Battle of Bråvalla, in the year 750.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Ragnvald had shown disrespect towards the Geats by not taking a Geat hostage.

According to Saxo this famine and the departure of many Danes explained why in his own day much of the Danish land was overrun with forests in which stone piles alone showed that the land had once been cultivated fields.

According to Saxo Grammaticus it closed at some time around 1200.

According to Saxo, it is Höðr, Aðils ' brother who became the king of both Denmark and Sweden.

According to the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde built a castle in 1167 on a small island outside Copenhagen Harbour.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Gytha and two of her brothers escaped to the court of their uncle, king Sweyn Estridsson of Denmark.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Arngrim was a Swedish champion who had killed Skalk the Scanian.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to this view, it is not considered to be read as a prophecy of western political history or of an eschatological future.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search and rescue operation.

According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

According to Mintz, conspiracism denotes " belief in the primacy of conspiracies in the unfolding of history ":" Conspiracism serves the needs of diverse political and social groups in America and elsewhere.

According to the Bible, the Millennial age of peace all but closes the history of planet Earth.

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to Bryan Wilson, functionally the definition of a " fellowship " within Christadelphian history has been mutual or unilateral exclusion of groupings of ecclesias from the breaking of bread.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to National Football League history, it legalized the forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage on February 25, 1933.

According to the preface the purpose of Luke is to write a historical account, while bringing out the theological significance of the history.

According to Oswald Spengler, the characteristic mistake of the Gracchan age was to believe in the possibility of the reversibility of history – a form of idealism which according to Spengler was at that time shared by both sides of political spectrum – Cato had sought to turn back the clock to the time of Cincinnatus, and restore virtue by returning to austerity.

According to Marxist theorists, history develops in accordance with the following observations:

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

According to Jaspers, this is the era of history when " the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently ... And these are the foundations upon which humanity still subsists today ".

According to Kuhn, each new paradigm re-writes the history of its science to present by selection and distortions the former paradigm as its forerunner.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.