- history, was
originally an
informal retinue of
personal armed companions,
hirdmen or housecarls. Over time, it came to mean not only the
nucleus ('Guards')...
- needed]
Other Scandinavian kings used
berserkers as part of
their army of
hirdmen and
sometimes ranked them as
equivalent to a
royal bodyguard. It may be...
- Uppsala. Haki was a
murderous fighter and
around himself he had his
twelve hirdmen of whom one was the
legendary old
warrior Starkad (who had been in the...
- "Sveit" is from Old Norse,
meaning a team,
gathering or herd of
troops or
Hirdmen. The
flags of NS
organisations sometimes contained text
showing their division...
-
gjest and kjertesvein. Lendmen,
having the
first rank in the
group of
hirdmen, had the
right to hold 40
armed housecarls, to
advise the King, and to...
-
Eyvind the
Shabby and Alf Askman [Wikidata], and
relates that they
became hirdmen of Erik's.
According to the 12th
century Historia Norvegiae,
Gunnhild was...
- a
possibility of
salvation and that all
behavior could be fixed.
These hirdmen would swear oaths to
their king that
would be
broken when the king died...
- uhi.ac.uk.
Retrieved 31 July 2021. "Blogs &
Exhibitions - Mimir's Well -
HIRDMEN AND HANDSEL". www.uhi.ac.uk.
Retrieved 31 July 2021. 3rd International...
-
enforce martial law,
Terboven mobilized nearly 13,000
police officers,
Hirdmen, and
soldiers with over 3,000 vehicles.
Terboven stopped the publication...
