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	Ohthere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ohthere, Ohtere (the name is sometimes mispelt Ohþere), or Ottar Vendelkråka (Vendelcrow) (ca 515 - ca 530) was a king of the Swedish house of Scylfings.
		Ohthere is considered to be a fairly historical king of Sweden, the memory of whom has been conveyed by Beowulf, Norse sagas and Swedish tradition (see also Origins for Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki).
		Consequently it is thought that the tradition of Ohthere's burial in Vendel was misinterpreted as his being put on top of a mound in the more well-known Vendsyssel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ohthere (621 words)

	Identity and Cultural Exchange 600-1600: Philippa Semper, 'The stranger within: Ohthere at the Court of King Alfred'
		Ohthere is, by virtue of his six hundred reindeer, "mid þæm fyrstum mannum on þæm lande" (among the foremost men in that land, p.15).
		Ohthere's "hranas" have to be defined in the text, and an element of perplexity still remains in the observation that Ohthere is not wealthy in relation to the animals that define wealth in ninth-century Wessex: cattle, sheep and pigs.
		Ohthere himself can be seen as a metaphor for his text which at once integrates and alienates its contemporary readers, marking both their position in this 'world history' and their status as intruders into this history, whose place is mediated through the situating account of an 'other'.
	www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/ice/semper.htm (3093 words)

	Ohthere sddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		For the Norwegian voyager by the same name, see Ottar from Hålogaland ---- Ohthere, Ohtere (the name is sometimes mispelt Ohþere), or Ottar Vendelkråka (Vendelcrow) (ca 515 - ca 530) was a king of the Suiones house of Scylfing s.
		Ohthere is considered to be a fairly historical king of Sweden, the memory of whom has been conveyed both by Beowulf, Norse saga s and Swedish tradition (see also Origins for Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki).
		This version fits the Swedish tradition which claims that Ottar resided at the ancient royal estate in Vendel, in Uplandia, and that he was buried in Ottarshögen (Ohthere's mound).
	ohthere.en.sddd.org (614 words)

	§3. Translations of Orosius and Bede. VI. Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign. Vol. 1. From the ...
		Further, the accounts of the celebrated voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan inserted in the volume were taken down from hearsay.
		Ohthere afterwards made a voyage south, from Halgoland to Haddeby in the Baltic.
		The narrative of Ohthere must have had particular interest for him, for the spirit of discovery which animated the Norwegian sailor was akin to that felt by the West Saxon king.
	www.bartleby.com /211/0603.html (1661 words)

	Elfinspell: Ohthere’s Narrative by Alfred the Great, c. 890 A.D., translated by Benjamin Thorpe, from Twelve ...
		Ohthere told his lord King Alfred, that he dwelt northmost of all the Northmen.
		The Cwenas sometimes make depredations on the Northmen over the mountain, and sometimes the Northmen on them; there are very large fresh meres amongst the mountains, and the Cwenas carry their ships over land into the meres, and thence make depredations on the Northmen; they have very little ships, and very light.
		Ohthere said that the shire in which he dwelt is called Halgoland.
	www.elfinspell.com /PrimarySourceOhthere.html (948 words)

	Eanmund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eanmund was the son of Ohthere and the brother of Eadgils.
		Ohthere died and his younger brother Onela, usurped the Swedish throne.
		Eadgils, however, survived and later, Beowulf helped him avenge Eanmund and Ohthere by slaying Onela, an event which also appears in Scandinavian sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eanmund (198 words)

	The Sámi People Pastoralism vs. Agriculture
		Ohthere was among the foremost men of that land; yet he did not have more than twenty head of cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty pigs; and the little that he ploughed, he ploughed by horses.
		Ohthere's mention of the use of decoys signals the beginning of the Sámis' domestication of the reindeer.
		In this sense, then, Ohthere's travellogue represents and presages the future of Sámi interaction with other peoples, as well as the shift in their subsistance practices from hunting reindeer to herding them in order to pay taxes or tributes.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/sami/diehtu/siida/reindeer/early.htm (2323 words)

	Vendel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It also shows a large mound which local tradition calls Ottarshögen (the mound of Ohthere of the epic Beowulf).
		An excavation in 1917 revealed the remains of a powerful man who was buried in the beginning of the 6th century, the time of Ohthere.
		Vendel has given its name to a period in the Scandinavian Iron Age, and it has often been suggested that the Germanic Vandals, or at least their kings, were connected to the site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vendel (221 words)

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		It is generally held that Ohthere lived in Senja, in what is now Lenvik.
		The length of a walrus is then, according to Ohthere, 3.2 metres, which is strikingly accurate: the Encyclopedia Britannica gives the length of a male walrus as 3.3 metres.
		This passage was convincingly interpreted by W.C. Stokoe in an article from 1952: what Ohthere describes are not the locations of the various countries and islands, but the points at which he would leave the Norwegian coast to sail to those places.
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/!oemac/texts/ohthere/OT_CMT.HTM (831 words)

	Voyages and Travels Vol I
		Among these was one Ohthere, who had made himself famous by his voyages to unknown parts of the north, and who was invited to court by Alfred, to give an account of the discoveries and observations he had made during his unusual expeditions.
		According to the description given to the king by Ohthere, Northmanna-land, or Norway, is very long and narrow, all the land which is fit for pasture or tillage being on the seacoast, which is very rocky in some places.
		Ohthere says, that the shire or district which he inhabited is called Halgoland, and that there were no inhabitants beyond him to the north.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/6/0/10600/10600-h/10600-h.htm (15267 words)

	Ohthere: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Another voyage of Ohthere southward along the Norwegian coast and to Denmark furnished additional information on the geography of N Europe.
		In the ninth century Ohthere, the Norwegian, had sailed north of the...except for the accounts of the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, it is almost impossible...with the accounts of the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan included, he increased the...
		...politics by extending hospitality to the rebellious sons of Ohthere, son of Ongentheow and then ruler of the Swedes: Hyne...over the sea sought, the sons of Ohthere; they had rebelled against the...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/ohthere.jsp (525 words)

	Vestvågøy Theme 14 of Travels in Time
		The account of Ohthere's voyage, written around 890 AD, is one of the most exciting contemporary sources for Viking Age Scandinavia.
		Ohthere told his lord, King Alfred, that he lived the furthest north of all Norwegians.
		Ohthere said that the district where he lived is called Halgoland.
	www.travels-in-time.net /e/norway14arteng.htm (1356 words)

	Beowulf - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		As the barrow in Vendel (in Sweden) was indicated as the barrow of Ohthere by local tradition, an excavation was undertaken in 1917.
		The dating was consistent with that of Beowulf and the sagas: the early 6th century.
		As far as Sweden is concerned this dating has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and by Swedish tradition as the graves of Eadgils and Ohthere in Uppland.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Beowulf (4438 words)

	Engl401 \| Lessons \| The Voyage of Ohthere: Introduction
		The story of Ohthere's voyage is added to the first section of Orosius's history, which gives a brief geography of the world as known to early medieval Europeans.
		Ohthere is a "Norþmann," or Norwegian, and although we do not know the circumstances of his meeting with Ælfred, we can situate the meeting within a century of contact between Norse-speaking people like Ohthere and the Anglo-Saxons, most of which contact involved bloodshed.
		It seems clear that Ohthere himself was not (at least primarily) one of the Viking attackers, but a merchant or trader who encountered the Anglo-Saxon king under peaceful circumstances (though the suggestion of the text that Ælfred was "his hlaford" could certainly be honorific rather than factual).
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl401/lessons/ohtintro.htm (485 words)

	Vikingeskibsmuseet
		The ventures of Ohthere and Wulfstan together with the description of Europe from the Old English Orosius, followed in 1984 (published by William Sessions of York).
		Ohthere’s and Wulfstan’s accounts are, therefore, our oldest sources concerning the geography of Scandinavia and also give the earliest written confirmation of a number of Nordic place names.
		The seminar focussed on the description of the North Norwegian Chieftain Ohthere’s voyages along the Norwegian coast into the White Sea and down through Danish waters to Hedeby.
	www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk /page.asp?sideid=588&zcs=402 (557 words)

	Old English Aerobics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Ohthere was a Norwegian (the Old Norse form of his name would have been Óttarr) who lived by hunting, whaling and trading; we are told that he "sought" the court of King Alfred, presumably as a market for his goods.
		The trickiness of memory, the frequent inaccuracy of secondhand reporting, and, in the case of Ohthere at least, the difficulty of communication between Englishman and Norseman, cause us to question some details.
		But the narratives of Ohthere and Wulfstan are plainly different from many of the travellers' tales that circulated in the Middle Ages, which were long on the fantastic and short on fact.
	www.engl.virginia.edu /OE/anthology/ohthere_hn.html (531 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: Analysis of the old english text "Ohthere´s Voyage" - Seminararbeit. Seminararbeiten, Diplomarbeiten, ...
		The description of Ohthere’s voyages is an insertion into a translation of “A history of the world” by Paulus Orosius.
		Ohthere was a “NorÞmann” or Norwegian and possibly a merchant or trader, who encountered the Anglo-Saxon king under peaceful circumstances.
		It is also discussed, that Ohthere might have been a refugee that fled from the Norwegian King Harald Hårfagre, who in the years before 885 imposed his royal central power and expelled the nobility into exile.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/5199.html (717 words)

	vol01chap01sect01to05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Yet, though one of the richest men in these parts, he had only twenty head of cattle, twenty sheep, and twenty swine; and what little land he had in tillage was ploughed by horses.
		Ohthere further says, that he sailed in five days from Sciringes-heal to that port which is called Haethum,[18] which lies between Winedum, Seaxun, and Anglen, and makes part of Dene.
		First of all, he has Scotland, called Iraland, evidently by mistake, and the Orkney and Shetland islands, which lie between Scotland and Halgoland, on his right hand; and the continent is continually on his left hand, all the way, until he arrive at Sciringes-heal.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/kerr/vol01chap01sect01to05.html (4422 words)

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		He had returned home to be offered the kingship by Hygd, as her son Heardred was too young, but Beowulf decided to serve as liege to the young king instead.
		Indeed he was loyal to Heardred, till he was killed by Onela, the Swedish king, for harboring the fugitive sons of Ohthere.
		The king died of sorrow and Haethcyn succeeded, till he was killed in a war with the Swedes, as the Swedish brothers, Onela and Ohthere, Ongtheow’s sons, were constantly plundering Geatland.
	www.campusnut.com /book.cfm?article_id=696§ion=13 (447 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Ongenþeow
		The reason why they are thought to have been the same is that they have the same position in the line of Swedish kings and are described as the fathers of Ohthere and grand-fathers of Eadgils.
		In Ari Frode 's Íslendingabók and in Historia Norwegiae, he was called Egil Vendelcrow (Vendilcraca/Vendilkráka, a name traditionally given to those living at the royal estate of Vendel in Sweden).
		According to Beowulf, his wife and two sons Onela (Áli) and Ohthere (Ottar) were captured by the Geatish king Hæþcyn.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Egil (649 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A Swedish prince, son of Ohthere and brother of Eanmund.
		Ohthere told his lord, King Alfred, that he dwelt northmost of all...
		Svear is Onela (Ale), whose father Ongentheow (Egil) is buried beneath the eastern mound at Gamla Uppsala.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=ency_botresults&q=Ohthere (483 words)

	Barony Of Vatavia, Lapland
		They are mentioned in passing in the Poetic Edda and in an old Icelandic law book.
		The first first-hand description of the Lapps was by Ottarr (known in England as Ohthere) a Norwegian landowner, who, driven by curiosity, sailed around the top of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the first known to do so.
		These observations were written down when Ottarr visited the court of Alfred the Great.
	www.baronyofvatavia.org /articles/perovr/lapp011997a31.php (489 words)

	Ohthere - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Ohthere" at HighBeam.
		The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature; 1/1/2003; MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER; 156 words
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/o/ohthere.asp (159 words)

	Beowulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		After Hygelac's death among the Frisians, Hygelac's son Heardred gets on Onela's bad side by harboring Eanmund and Eadgils, the sons of Ohthere.
		Onela had usurped Ohthere's throne and wished to destroy Eanmund and Eadgils.
		Beowulf avenges Heardred's death by killing Onela, but he brings peace by placing Eadgils on the Swedish throne.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/swedes.htm (159 words)

	Old English - Grammar and Reader - Robert E. Diamond
		The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting orthography.
		The prose selections include: "The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan"; "The Story of King Cynewulf of Wessex"; "The Wars of King Alfred against the Vikings"; and King Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis.
		The poetry includes: Caedmon's "Hymn" from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Battle of Brunanburg; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of Rood from the Vercelli Book; The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Storm Riddles, The Panther, and The Whale from The Exeter Book.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/literature/diamondoe.htm (156 words)

	Beowulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poem is untitled in the manuscript, but has been known as Beowulf since the early 19th century.
		Norse sources also relate that a place called Vendel was the place of Ohthere's death.
		Shield Sheafson - (Scyld Scēfing) warrior king who founded the ruling house in Denmark
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beowulf (4914 words)

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