Who's Who in the Viking Age - The Viking Age Archive

Adam of Bremen

Medieval scribe of the Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg.

Alcuin of York

The Northumbrian scholar who wrote about the attack on Lindisfarne.

Alfred the Great

The life and Viking times of Alfred the Great.

Alfred Ætheling

Murdered son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy.

Anna of Kiev

The Rus’ princess who was crowned Queen of the Franks.

Charles the Bald

Grandson of Charlemagne, king of West Francia. Spent most of his time fighting his relatives and the Vikings.

Charles the Fat

Son of Louis the German, Holy Roman Emperor.

Charles the Simple

The life of a ninth-century French king is complicated by raiding Vikings.

Cnut the Great

Ruler of England, Denmark and Norway in the eleventh century.

Eadgifu of Wessex

Second wife of Charles the Simple. First wife of Herbert le Vieux. Mother of Louis IV.

Ealhswith

The wife of Alfred the Great.

Edmund the Magnificent

Half-brother to Æthelstan, ruled only seven years. Father of Edgar the Peaceable.

Edward the Confessor

King of England for twenty years until the Norman conquest.

Edward the Elder

Son of Alfred the Great, brother to Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercia and father to Æthelstan, king of England.

Emma of Normandy

Emma of Normandy is the proverbial spider in the web of Anglo-Danish-Norman politics in the eleventh century.

Frederuna

The first wife of Charles the Simple.

Gisela of France

The third wife of Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Also daughter of Charles III the Simple.

Goda of England

Daughter of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy.

Godwin of Wessex

The jarl who would dominate Edward the Confessor’s reign.

Gudrun Skeggesdatter

Third wife of Olaf Tryggvason.

Gunhild

Wife of Sweyn Forkbeard.

Gunhilda of Denmark

Daughter of Cnut the Great and Emma or Normandy.

Guthrum

Danish leader of the Great Heathen Army.

Gyda of Dublin

Second wife of Olaf Tryggvason.

Gyda of the Wends

First wife of Olaf Tryggvason.

Haakon the Good

The first Haakon of Norway.

Hallfreth the Troublesome

Court poet of Olaf Tryggvason.

Harald Fairhair

Harald I of Norway, founder of the Fairhair dynasty.

Harthacnut

King of England. Son of Cnut and Emma.

Henry IV of Germany

The Holy Roman Emperor who walked to Canossa.

Henry of France

The first Frankish king by the name of Henry.

Henry the Exuberant

The duke who became an Emperor and then a saint.

Igor of Kiev

The son of Rurik and Olga, prince of Kiev.

Louis III

Joint Ruler of West Francia with his brother Carloman II.

Matilda of Flanders

The powerful wife of William the Conqueror.

Olaf Tryggvason

When Olaf I Tryggvason became king of Norway in the tenth century.

Otto the Great

First ruler of the Ottonian dynasty.

Philip the Amorous

Son of Henry I of France and Anna of Kiev.

Poppa of Bayeux

The second wife of Rollo, Duke of Normandy.

Rollo

The Viking who became a French duke.

Rorik of Dorestad

A Dane in Frisia in the ninth century.

Rorik of Dorestad

Danish nobleman who would rule Frisia.

Sigrid the Haughty

Legendary queen of Sweden. Later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard.

Sweyn Cnutsson

Son of Cnut the Great. Regent of Norway.

Sweyn Forkbeard

Prince. Viking Raider. King of Three Countries.

Thorkell the Tall

The life and times of a Danish commander who served many kings.

Tyra of Denmark

Sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, third wife of Olaf Tryggvason.

Wulfstan Lupus

Archbishop of York famous for his Sermon of the Wolf.

Ælfgifu of Northampton

The Mercian wife of Cnut the Great.

Ælfgifu of York

The first wife of Æthelred II ‘the Unready’.

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