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9th-century births: stories to listen to | HearLore
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9th-century births
AsserAsser, a Welsh monk from St David's in the kingdom of Dyfed, lived from at least 885 until about 909. Almost nothing is known of his early life beyond the…
Gorm the OldGorm the Old emerged from a semi-legendary lineage in the early 10th century. His father Harthacnut arrived from Northmannia to seize power over Western…
RurikEast Slavic and Finnic tribes drove the Varangians back beyond the sea in 860, 862. The Chuds, Slovenes, Krivichs, Meryans, and Ves refused to pay them…
RolloRollo died in 933, and his tomb states he was in his eighties at that time. This detail places his birth somewhere in the mid-9th century, though no calendar…