Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/21/hoard-of-1000-year-old-viking-coins-unearthed-in-denmark

Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark

Artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn

Agence France-Presse
Fri 21 Apr 2023 09.06 EDT

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in north-west Denmark, a museum has said.

The trove – lying in two spots not far apart – was unearthed by a girl who was metal-detecting in a cornfield last autumn.

“A hoard like this is very rare,” Lars Christian Norbach, the director of the North Jutland Museum, where the artefacts will go on display, told Agence France-Presse.

The silver coins were found about 5 miles (8km) from the Fyrkat Viking ringfort, near the town of Hobro. From their inscriptions, they are believed to date back to the 980s.

The trove includes Danish, Arab and Germanic coins as well as pieces of jewellery originating from Scotland or Ireland, according to archaeologists. Norbach said the finds were from the same period as the fort, built by King Harald Bluetooth, and would offer a greater insight into the history of the Vikings.

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(Detectorists!)

[LiberalArkie]

1. King Harald Bluetooth is my 32th grandfather... Or I am his 32th grandson..

[mopinko]

3. how did you find that out?

i have my recent tree, but i’m told a branch of the family goes back to heremon, one of the 1st kings of ireland. would be fun to know.

[LiberalArkie]

10. Ancestry and the Mormon Family Search.

Actually I go back to include Uhtred the Great. And back to Alexander the Great..

I was stuck at the battle of Hastings for the longest time until the Germans , Swiss, French and others digitized all their books a few years ago. I just did a quick automated search and WHAM. It just kept going and going..

My dad's side came from the Danes who traveled all over into Greece, over to India and who knows where else.
My moms side came over from France with the Norman invasion and fought my dad's side in the Battle of Hastings..

I was lucky as I had a few royals in the different sides of the families as they kept records.


Just get some of the automated programs (or Ancestry.com) and put what you have in and check back every so often and it will start finding links..

I learned a lot of history doing it..

I watched "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix and a name popped up and I thought "I have heard that name before. The Last Kingdom has real characters in it but not in the correct chronological order.

[mopinko]

12. i have a tree on family search that i havent put much into.

i should update it.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Yes... There is some much new data in place now...

Here is what I found on one of the guys in my past. Waltheof 1, Earl of Northumbria

Property

By 1066 Waltheof owned manors in eight counties, mostly in the east midlands (Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Lincolnshire), but also two big manors near London (Tottenham and Walthamstow) and the large soke of Hallamshire in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Execution

Waltheof was involved in a revolt, although he never openly rebelled against the King. Nevertheless, he was jailed and after more than a year was executed by beheading on St Giles's Hill outside Winchester on 31 May 1076.[6]

"Waltheof was the last of the Old English earls to survive under William I, his execution for treason in 1076 marking a significant stage in the aristocratic and tenurial revolution which followed 1066.

As one of the few English magnates not from the Godwin faction, he accepted and was accepted by William I, witnessing royal charters and remaining loyal to the new regime until 1069 when he joined with the Danes in their invasion of Northumbria.

He was prominent in their capture of York, hoping, no doubt, to be restored to his father's position. This opportunism is perhaps more characteristic of English magnate reactions to the political turmoil of 1065-70 than any supposed national feeling. However, the revolt and invasion were defeated by William's winter campaign of 1069-70.

It is a measure of William's insecurity that when Waltheof submitted in 1070 he was restored to royal favour and, in 1072, added the earldom of Northumbria to his holdings. To bind him more tightly to the Norman dispensation, William gave him his niece Judith in marriage. But in 1075, Waltheof was implicated in the largely French revolt led by Ralph, earl of Norfolk, and Roger, earl of Hereford. Despite his lack of military action, his confession, apparent contrition and the support of Archbishop Lanfranc, Waltheof was executed on 31 May 1076.

The king's motives are obscure. Waltheof was the only prominent Englishman to be executed in the reign. Perhaps his removal was part of William's justifiably nervous response to the problem of controlling Northumbria. It may have made sense to take the chance to remove a potential --- and proven --- focus of northern discontent. Yet Waltheof's heirs were not harried, one daughter, Matilda, marrying David I of Scotland (1042-53), and another Ralph IV of Tosny, a leading Norman baron.

Waltheof is a significant reminder that the period around 1066 was transitional, with no necessarily definite beginnings or endings. Waltheof adapted to the new order, falling foul, it seems, of the ambitions and schemes of others, not least of parvenus Frenchmen. He married into the new elite, yet embodied the old. Heir to both English and Anglo-Danish traditions, it was he who completed one of the most celebrated of Anglo-Saxon blood-feuds.

In 1016, Uchtred, earl of Northumbria was murdered by a northern nobleman called Thurbrand. He was, in turn, killed by Uchtred's son and successor, Ealdred, who was himself slain by Thurbrand's son, Carl. Waltheof's mother was Ealdred's daughter and he avenged his great-grandfather and grandfather by massacring a number of Carl's sons.

Burial

bur. Crowland Abbey where,[7]

(Royal Ancestry) Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland was executed at Winchester, Hampshire 31 May 1075 (or 1076). Two weeks afterwards the king allowed his body to be removed to Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, where the abbot buried him in the chapterhouse.; his remains were subsequently translated into the church near the altar.


Waltheof had posthumous fame in a cult that venerated him as a saint by the mid-twelfth century[8] Yet his career in the north shows that not far beneath the measured tones of Norman propagandists or the efficient gloss of English bureaucratic procedures simmered the violence of Dark Age epic.[9]

[mopinko]

15. i think this guy

is my 5g uncle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dwyer

[LiberalArkie]

16. I typed in Michael Dwyer B1772

That is how I found a lot of the links..
That led me to
https://www.geni.com/people/Michael-Dwyer-The-Wicklow-Chief-Convict-Tellicherry-1806/6000000016984927933

You can click on the siblings and follow them and click on his parents and go that direction..

[Sky Jewels]

8. That's cool, but I'm related to King Harald WiFi.

[Harker]

2. It's a good day when Harald Bluetooth makes headlines. n/t

[Sneederbunk]

4. As hoards go, this is a pretty good hoard.

[BMW2020RT]

5. Little known fact: Harald got the name Bluetooth because he didn't have a dental plan.

[eggplant]

6. Didn't he invent wireless communications?

(ducks)

[Victor_c3]

7. I heard he could sneeze with his eyes open

That has nothing to do with his teeth, but it’s still an interesting (and probably not true) fact I just made up.

[milestogo]

9. Those are mine.

One of my ancestors forgot where he buried them. He's in Valhalla now.

[LiberalFighter]

11. I was just going to say that.

[milestogo]

13. I recently found out on Ancestry that my great-grandfather

(who was from Denmark) had a brother named Ragnar.