According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to Adam of Bremen, an 11th-century historian, Harald's son Sweyn was baptised Otto, in tribute to the German king Otto I, who was the first Holy Roman Emperor.

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

According to Persian tradition, as reported by 11th-century ethnographer Mahmud of Kashgar and various other traditional Islamic scholars and historians, the name " Turk " stems from Tur, one of the sons of Japheth ( see Turan ).

According to an argument outlined by Maria Rosa Menocal in The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, in 11th-century Spain, a group of wandering poets appeared who would go from court to court, and sometimes travel to Christian courts in southern France, a situation closely mirroring what would happen in southern France about a century later.

According to her 11th-century biography ( Vita Gudilae ), written by a monk of the abbey of Hautmont between 1048 and 1051, she was the daughter of a duke of Lotharingia called Witger and Amalberga of Maubeuge.

According to the romance that accrued to his name, recorded in an 11th-century vita, Leonard was a Frankish noble in the court of Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty.

According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Géza continued to worship pagan gods ; a chronicle claims that when he was questioned about this he stated he is rich enough to sacrifice to both the old gods and the new one.

According to the earliest Russian chronicle, a Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler ( knyaz ) of Novgorod in about 860, before his successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev, which had been previously dominated by the Khazars.

According to the chronicle, Scotland was later named in her honour.

According to the majority of modern historians, Thietmar made an error summarizing the chronicle of Widukind, placing the Gero raid there instead of the fighting that Mieszko conducted at that time against Wichmann the Younger.

According to the Gopalavamsa chronicle, the Kiratas ruled for about 1225 years ( 800 BCE – 300 CE ), their reign had a total of 29 kings during that time.

According to Roger of Howden's chronicle of Henry's reign, most of the castles belonging to rebels were to be returned to the state they were in 15 days before the outbreak of war, while others were to be razed.

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.

According to the early Slavic chronicle called Tale of Bygone Years, which describes life in Kyivan Rus ' up to the year 1110, he sent his envoys throughout the civilized world to judge at first hand the major religions of the time — Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and Byzantine Orthodoxy.

According to the chronicle Brut y Tywysogion, Godfrey Haroldson carried off two thousand captives from Anglesey in 987, and the king of Gwynedd, Maredudd ab Owain is reported to have redeemed many of his subjects from slavery by paying the Danes a large ransom.

According to legend ( recounted in Edward Hall's chronicle, written several years afterwards though from first-hand accounts ), he did not wait for an answer but dashed out Wenlock's brains with a battleaxe before seeking sanctuary in the Abbey.

According to the account in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, " There is no reason to doubt that she was buried with her husband at Coventry, despite the assertion of the Evesham chronicle that she lay in Holy Trinity, Evesham.

According to one chronicle, he gathered some of his most trusted men around him, including Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and Aymer de Valence, soon to be Earl of Pembroke.

According to William of Rubruck and a Muslim chronicle, Batu killed the imperial envoy and one of his brothers murdered the Great Khan Guyuk.

According to the chronicle, the Byzantines attempted to poison Oleg, but the Rus ' leader demonstrated his oracular powers by refusing to drink the cup of poisoned wine.

According to one chronicle, Yaropolk's brother Oleg killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander Sveneld.

According to Brian McFarlane, in The Encyclopedia of British Film, hosted by British Film Institute's Screenonline, Finch " did not emerge unscathed from a life of well-publicised hell-raising, and several biographies chronicle the affairs and the booze, but a serious appraisal of a great actor remains to be written.

According to William of Rubruck and a Muslim chronicle, Batu then killed the imperial envoy, and one of his brothers murdered or poisoned the Great Khan Guyuk.

According to a Muslim chronicle and the history of Yuan dynasty, Batu had free access to the imperial treasury.

According to the chronicle, when Dutthagamani of Sri Lanka ( 101-77 BC ) was born, many items of value were said to have appeared spontaneously, which were found and brought in by various people as gifts to the newborn.

According to Sheng-Wu-Chi's Ming dynasty chronicle (" Our dynasty is informed by military realizations "), in this land the Tungus Weji, Warka and Kurka tribes were established.

According to the city chronicle it was already built in 311, but archaeology dates it to the 13th century.

According to Mommsen, Solinus also used a chronicle ( possibly by Cornelius Bocchus ) and a Chorographia pliniana, an epitome of Pliny's work with additions made about the time of Hadrian.

" According to Ibn Idhari, " Abd ar-Rahman and many of his men found martyrdom on the balat ash-Shuhada ' i (" the path of the martyrs ).

According to tradition, the Umayyad family ( also known as the Banu Abd-Shams ) and Muhammad both descended from a common ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai and they are originally from the city of Mecca.

According to ' Abd al-Jabbar ( Martin et al., 1997 ): The doctrine of irreversible Divine promises and threats is the knowledge that God promises recompense ( al-thawab ) to those who obey Him and He threatens punishment to those who disobey Him.

According to the 9th century Arab geographer Ya ' qubi, ar-Ramleh ( Ramla ) was founded in 716 by the Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, and its name was derived from the Arabic word Raml ( رمل )— meaning sand.

According to Yazid's own account, Yazid sent ' Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Hajjaj to meet Walid at al-Bakhra '.

According to Ibn al-Athir, threatened by Abd ar-Rahman I, the Umayyad emir of Córdoba, al-Arabi sent a delegation to Charlemagne in Paderborn, offering his submission, together with the allegiance of Husayn of Zaragoza and Abu Taur of Huesca in return for military aid.

According to ` Abd Allah ibn ` Umar, Muhammad said, " The night prayer is offered as two rakat followed by two rakat and so on and if anyone is afraid of the approaching dawn ( fajr prayer ) he should pray one raka ' ah and this will be a witr for all the rakat which he has prayed before.

According to ` Abd al-Qadir Bada ' uni, one of the few contemporary historians to mention its construction, the architect of the tomb was the Persian architect, Mirak Mirza Ghiyas ( also referred to as Mirak Ghiyathuddin ) who was brought from Herat ( northwest Afghanistan ), and had previously designed several buildings in Herat, Bukhara ( now Uzbekistan ), and others elsewhere in India.

According to Madelung's account of the shura, ' Abd al-Rahman delayed announcing his choice until he faced a public meeting at the mosque, where he announced his choice of Uthman.

According to R. A. Caulk, Emir ' Abd Allah was the son of Muhammad ibn ` Ali ` Abd ash-Shakur by Kadija, the daughter of Emir ` Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad.

According to the Institute of Ismaili Studies ( Ismailism is a branch of Shīʻa Islam ), " In mystical literature, such as the writings of al – Tirmidhi, Abd al – Razzaq and Ibn al –‘ Arabi ( d. 1240 ), or Kutb refers to the most perfect human being ( al – insan al – kamil ) who is thought to be the universal leader of all saints, to mediate between the divine and the human and whose presence is deemed necessary for the existence of the world.

According to ` Abd Allah ibn ` Abbas ( cousin of Muhammad ) Book 13 Hadith No. 4016, the dying Muhammad said that he wished to write a letter — or wished to have a letter written — detailing his wishes for his community.

According to Ibn Ishaq, Abdullah Ibn Zaid Ibn Abd Rabbihi went to Muhammad with his story that he saw Adhan in his dream, Muhammad, approving the method for calling to prayers, told him to ask an Ethiopian named Bilal, who had a marvelous voice, to call the Muslims to prayer ( the Adhan ).

According to this source, Muawiya poisoned ‘ Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khalid to secure the transition of power to his son.

According to Sunni doctrine, the term includes the wives and dependants of Muhammad, as it addresses them in the preceding verse-an interpretation which is attributed to ` Abd Allah ibn ` Abbas and Ikrimah ibn Abi-Jahl, both of whom were companions of Muhammad.