Continual tension within the countries and within the union gradually led to open conflict between the Swedes and the Danes in the 15th century, however.

This however was soon reverted through an invasion of the Danes.

The Danes, however, understood its importance and soon it was found as graffiti all around the country.

The political atmosphere, however, had changed at Copenhagen also ; and their demands were met by the Danes with a nationalist temper as intractable as their own.

Danes, however, claimed that this only applied to Holstein, but that Schleswig was subject to the Danish law of succession.

It survived, however, as between Danes and Germans, though narrowed down to the question of the fate of the Danish population of the northern duchy.

Charles proved an able military commander, however, quickly forcing the Danes out of the war and then driving back the Russians at Narva, thereby allowing him to focus on the struggle with Augustus.

It survived, however, as between Danes and Germans, though narrowed to the question of the fate of the Danish population of Schleswig.

The English, however, instead of waiting to die of thirst on top of the hill, attacked suddenly out of the fortress at dawn, taking the Danes by surprise and winning a great victory.

The survivors, however, rebuilt the church and continued to live there until 883, when, through fear of a second invasion of the Danes, they fled inland, taking with them the body of Cuthbert and other holy relics.

Game 3 against Denmark saw a pulsating clash from end to end which saw GB register their first points with a 4-4 draw, however after leading the Danes 1-0 at the end of the 1st.

The Danes however, had already returned to Landskrona and camped on the hills west of the town.

While he was in talks with Hastein, the Danes at Appledore broke out and struck northwestwards.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

876 The Danes broke the peace when they captured the fortress of Wareham, followed by a similar capture of Exeter in 877.

I am sure every Englishman who has a heart in his breast and a feeling of justice in his mind, sympathizes with those unfortunate Danes ( cheers ), and wishes that this country could have been able to draw the sword successfully in their defence ( continued cheers ); but I am satisfied that those who reflect on the season of the year when that war broke out, on the means which this country could have applied for deciding in one sense that issue, I am satisfied that those who make these reflections will think that we acted wisely in not embarking in that dispute.

One of the Amlaíbs stormed Tamworth according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Here Olaf broke down Tamworth and a great slaughter fell on either side, and the Danes had the victory and led much war-booty away with them.

On hearing of this, resident Danes in East Anglia and elsewhere broke their promises to Alfred and rose up to join in.

The " Stralsund Zeitung " writes about the naval battle that took place yesterday: the Prussians broke off, as the Danes increased numbers to seven ships.

The Danes quickly broke camp and started to race the Swedes for control of the hills.

Even when defenseless of weapons the Danes would be Gar-Dene ( as their king is Hrothgar ) and Priam would be EUMMELIHS.

In 876 under their new leader, Guthrum, the Danes slipped past the English army and attacked and occupied Wareham in Dorset.

He then pursued the Danes to their stronghold at Chippenham and starved them into submission.

In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo-Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.

At the end of this year and early in 895 ( or 896 ), the Danes drew their ships up the River Thames and River Lea and fortified themselves twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of London.

In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.

Once inside the fortification, Alfred realised, the Danes enjoyed the advantage, better situated to outlast their opponents or crush them with a counter attack as the provisions and stamina of the besieging forces waned.

The Danes had beached half their ships, and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food.

When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships.

The Hanoverians, Hessians and Danes, despite earlier undertakings, found, or invented, pressing reasons for withholding their support.

:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

Although Baltic Germans at large regarded the future of Estonians as being a fusion with themselves, the Estophile educated class admired the ancient culture of the Estonians and their era of freedom before the conquests by Danes and Germans in the 13th century.

His death motivated the Danes, who until then had resigned themselves to German occupation, to rise against their foreign oppressors.

Latvia, in whole or in parts, remained under foreign rule for the next eight centuries, finding itself at the cross-roads of all the regional superpowers of their day, including Denmark ( the Danes held on lands around the Gulf of Riga ), Sweden, and Russia, with southern ( Courland ) Latvia being at one time a vassal to Poland-Lithuania as well as Latgale falling directly under Poland-Lithuania rule.

The Danes sold Tallinn along with their other land possessions in northern Estonia to the Teutonic Knights in 1346.

By 801, a strong central authority appears to have been established in Jutland, and the Danes were beginning to look beyond their own territory for land, trade and plunder.

This occurred because the first two brothers died in wars with the Danes without issue, while Aethelred's sons were too young to rule when their father died.

Wessex was invaded in 871, and although Aethelred and Alfred won some victories and succeeded in preventing the conquest of their kingdom, a number of defeats, heavy losses of men and the arrival of a fresh Danish army in England compelled Alfred to pay the Danes to leave Wessex.

Alfred was reduced to taking refuge with a small band of followers in the marshes of the Somerset Levels, but after a few months he was able to gather an army and defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington, bringing about their final withdrawal from Wessex to settle in East Anglia.

Sten Sture's widow Christina Gyllenstierna, who has led the fight after Sten's death, and all other persons in the resistance against the Danes, are granted amnesty and are pardoned for their involvement in the resistance.

The body was subsequently recovered by a fishermen, and resident Danes reportly had it reburied at their local cemetery in London.