The site of Hedeby is located in the Duchy of Schleswig, which was traditionally the personal territory of the kings of Denmark.

* Hedeby is the accepted modern English and Danish spelling.

Godofredus ) destroyed a competing Slav trade centre named Reric, and it is recorded in the Frankish chronicles that he moved the merchants from there to Hedeby.

It is unclear if Wulfstan was English or indeed if he was from Hedeby, in today's northern Germany near the city of Schleswig.

* Hedeby is destroyed by a Slavic army and permanently abandoned.

* Hedeby is founded.

* Hedeby is sacked by King Harald Hardråde of Norway during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.

The extent of Harald's Danish Kingdom is unknown, although it is reasonable to believe that it stretched from the defensive line of Dannevirke, including the Viking city of Hedeby, across Jutland, the Danish isles and into southern present day Sweden ; Scania and perhaps Halland and Blekinge.

Hedeby was located on the river Schlei opposite to what is now the City of Schleswig.

Gereby is said to be founded by the Vikings in order to defend their way to Hedeby.

It is not only the meaning Island dwellers that connects them to the island Öland ( meaning " Island land "), but also the Old English name for the island which was Eowland ( mentioned by Wulfstan of Hedeby ), " the land of the Eowan ".

He is also noted for his description of the Vikings living in Hedeby, of the Nakonid fortification at " Dorf Mecklenburg " and of what was, in all likelihood, the nucleus of the later ducal castle and palace at Schwerin.

The Viking settlement of Hedeby, located south of the modern town, was first mentioned in 804.

For centuries, Starigard / Oldenburg remained the Slavic competitor of Hedeby on the Baltic trade, until the counts Adolph I and Adolph II of Schauenburg and Holstein, supported by Henry the Lion, finally defeated the Wends during the first half of the 12th century.

Legend has it that Ansgar, a French Benedictine monk, was the first missionary to visit Denmark around 822, purchased the freedom of twelve male thralls and educated them in the first school in Denmark, at Hedeby in Schleswig.

The Frankish annals state that the kings of Hedeby had to solve an uprising in Vestfold at this time.

These report a King Gudfred, who appeared in present day Holstein with a navy in 804 where diplomacy took place with the Franks ; In 808, King Gudfred attacked the Obotrite and conquered the city of Reric whose population was displaced or abducted to Hedeby.

According to legend, he was also used as a war elephant in 804 when the Danish king Godfred attacked a trading village near Denmark and moved the people by force to his newly-built trading village in Hedeby.

It gives Awair Strabain as the name of the man who arranged the mutually beneficial agreement with the king of Sweden ; the event would have taken place before the end of the 9th century, when Wulfstan of Hedeby reported that the island was subject to the Swedes:

It gives Awair Strabain as the man who arranged the mutually beneficial agreement with the king of Sweden, and the event would have taken place before the end of the 9th century, when Wulfstan of Hedeby reported that the island was subject to the Swedes.

Hedeby (, Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu ) was an important trading settlement in the Danish-northern German borderland during the Viking Age.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

Hedeby was abandoned after its destruction in 1066.

Hedeby, which lay near the modern city of Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein, was pretty centrally located and could be reached from all four directions over land as well as from the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea.

One important centre of trade was at Hedeby.

Wulfstan of Hedeby ( Latin Haithabu ) was a late ninth century traveller and trader.

In 1066 Hedeby was finally destroyed, and Schleswig remained as a part of the Danish kingdom.

Archaeologists believe that in the Early Middle Ages there was a great trade emporium, spreading along the shore for four kilometers and rivaling in importance Birka and Hedeby.

According to information from a trader travelling from Skiringssal, close to the Oslofjord to Hedeby in the 870s it can be concluded that Halland was a Danish area at that time.

The important Viking settlement of Hedeby was located at the head of the firth ( fjord ), but was later abandoned in favor of the city of Schleswig.

There on the narrowest part of southern Jutland was established the important transit market ( Haithabu, also known as Hedeby, near modern Haddeby ), which was protected by the Danevirke fortification.

Lund was the principal minting place and one of Denmark's most important cities in the Middle Ages, but coins were also minted in Roskilde, Slagelse, Odense, Aalborg, Århus, Viborg, Ribe, Ørbæk and Hedeby.

Denmark's most important town, Hedeby, which apparently already existed on the Schlien, was expanded and garrisoned with Danish soldiers and the early sections of the wall were designed to protect it.

King Gudfred attacked Reric burnt it down, killed Chief Drożko and ordered the merchants to resettle at Hedeby, which was being integrated into the Danevirke defensive line.

In the Viking period, the chronicler Æthelweard reports that the most important town in Angeln was Hedeby.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

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In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

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If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

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`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

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