England in Europe

Tyler, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.3138/9781442685956

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“…31 It does so by exalting the virtues of his mother Emma, his father Knud and his grandfather Svend, but also by rewriting history through what Elizabeth Tyler has called 'fictions of family'famously, its author fails to mention Emma's former marriage with AEthelred II, and he recasts Hardeknud's halfbrothers as the offspring of a low-born servant. 32 Bolstering the Anglo-Danish regime was clearly a goal of those two works, and yet it is striking that none of them did so by invoking a long and glorious genealogy.…”

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Remembering and Forgetting Pagan Kings of the Danes in the Eleventh Century

Gautier

2019

Scandinavian Journal of History

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In eleventh-century Denmark, the memory of the pagan kings of the Danes of the previous centuries was treated in many different ways: practices and choices of oral and written memory, oblivion and reinterpretations can be identified. We illustrate those varied strategies in three main contexts: oblivion, as exemplified by the work of Ailnoth; the use (or lack of use) of genealogy in the reign of Knud the Great and his sons; reinterpretations of past reigns by King Svend Estridsen, as described in the work of Adam of Bremen.

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