Glasmästare munsö
A long and elaborate sequence of kings of the Munsö dynasty can be found in 12th and 13th century Icelandic sagas , but the sagas are overwhelmingly considered unreliable, with the kings that appear in them seen as legendary figures. Munsö. Kings from the Vita [ edit ]. For the legendary kings placed in this dynasty by the Icelandic sagas, see List of legendary kings of Sweden § Munsö dynasty.
The line of Munsö dynasty kings presented by the Icelandic sagas is not accepted by modern historians, the legendary kings including the supposed founder of the dynasty, Björn Ironside typically not being recognized as actual historical figures. The following chart maps the descendants of Björn Ironside according to the saga [ 14 ] :. Read Edit View history. These include:. Viking raids and against their neighbors. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.
Here she ceased producing art as a spiritualist medium and adopted a more analytical approach to her art and writing. The supportive evidence for this theory; a large burial mound on Munsö and a contemporary account by German missionary Rimbert giving the impression that the Swedish king had his seat near the island-settlement of Birka , is quite thin. The Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks has in some versions an addition which gives a regnal list of Sweden following the death of Ingjald Illråde , the last king of the Yngling dynasty.
När det kommer till fönster kan vi hjälpa till med allt ifrån montering av nya fönster till renovering eller reparation i Munsö. Protohistoric Swedish dynasty. The big burial mound at Munsö was attributed, without evidence, to Björn Ironside by 18th-century historians, an identification that is not accepted by historians today. None of the names suggested for the dynasty are universally accepted and most are problematic; the name "House of Munsö" derives from a questionable and speculative theory that they would have ruled from the island of Munsö and the name "House of Björn Ironside" derives from the supposed founder of the dynasty, Björn Ironside , who is often seen as a legendary, rather than historical, figure.
Article Talk. Legendary kings [ edit ]. Coin of Anund Jacob r. Glasmastare24 samarbetar med glas-firmor i Munsö som utför alla traditionella tjänster inom glas. Other kings [ edit ]. The sequence of kings in the sagas is contradicted by more contemporary German sources such as the 9th century writings of Rimbert and the 11th century work of Adam of Bremen. The name "House of Uppsala" Swedish : Uppsalaätten derives from the fact that the Icelandic sagas often designate legendary Swedish rulers as kings "in Uppsala", and is similarly problematic.
In Hilma af Klint moved to a studio residence large enough to house The paintings for the temple, on the island of Munsö, west of Stockholm. Due to a lack of preserved sources, little concrete information is known of Swedish kings during the Viking Age. The centralization of power under one monarch is believed to have resulted from, or at the very least have been connected to, Viking expansion , with petty kings increasing their power through aggressive military ventures directed both to foreign lands i.
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Contents move to sidebar hide. Vita Ansgari and Adam of Bremen [ edit ]. In other projects. As Rimbert was a contemporary to the kings he writes about, the Vita is seen as a believable source. However, the distance in time is greater, and he is thus seen as a weaker source for the time before Eric the Victorious. Rimbert , who travelled with the bishop Ansgar to Sweden as a missionary in the 9th century, wrote about several kings in Vita Ansgari.
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The dynasty is thus sometimes simply designated as "the Old dynasty" Swedish : Gamla kungaätten , a more neutral designation. See also [ edit ]. There are also a few kings mentioned in various sources, but which are inconsitenstly placed in the regnal list, or not at all. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks [ edit ]. Kings from Adam of Bremen [ edit ]. Adam of Bremen alludes to the kings mentioned by Rimbert and expands the list of kings to cover the following centuries.
Etymology and historiography [ edit ]. The name "House of Munsö" Swedish : Munsöätten derives from a questionable and speculative theory that the kings of the 9th century transferred their royal seat of power from Uppsala an important early political center in Sweden to the island of Munsö in the lake Mälaren. In his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum , Danish author Saxo Grammaticus wrote that the Swedish kings of the Viking Age were part of the dynasty of the Ynglings , [ 1 ] a possibly entirely invented line of ancient Scandinavian kings supposedly descended from Odin , [ 4 ] but this does not accord with the Icelandic sagas, which hold that the Ynglings were driven from Sweden in the middle of the 7th century and replaced by other dynasties.
Since the name "House of Munsö" arguably takes a stand in favor of this theory, it is commonly avoided in modern Swedish scholarship. Download as PDF Printable version. Kings of the Munsö dynasty [ edit ]. Tools Tools. Theory [ edit ]. He founded the House of Munsö, and the saga then follows his descendants until Philip of Sweden.