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The Pillage of Sigtuna was the raid of the Swedish town of Sigtuna by pagans from the Eastern Baltic in 1187. The pillage is most commonly attributed to Estonians, Curonians, or Karelians.

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Pillage of Sigtuna

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The Pillage of Sigtuna was the raid of the Swedish town of Sigtuna by pagans from the Eastern Baltic in 1187. The pillage is most commonly attributed...

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Sigtuna

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Sigtuna is a locality situated in the eponymous Sigtuna Municipality, in Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,689 inhabitants in 2020. It is the namesake even...

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Stockholm

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Sweden from sea invasions made by Karelians after the pillage of Sigtuna on Lake Mälaren in the summer of 1187. Stockholm's core, the present Old Town (Gamla...

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List of wars between Russia and Sweden

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Swedish–Novgorodian Wars – A series of conflicts between the 12th and 14th centuries. History of the Russo-Turkish wars List of armed conflicts involving Poland...

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Vikerlased

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Voldemar Loo, brother of the composer's first wife, Ida Loo-Talvari. The libretto depicts events related to Pillage of Sigtuna in 1187. The premiere was...

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Republic of Karelia

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most famous of which is the Pillage of Sigtuna of 1187. In 1137 the oldest documented settlement was established, the modern-day city of Olonets (Aunus)...

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Early Finnish wars

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Sweden, 1130-1290. BRILL. p. 333. ISBN 978-9004155787. Enn Tarvel (2007). Sigtuna hukkumine. Archived 2017-10-11 at the Wayback Machine Haridus, 2007 (7-8)...

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List of wars involving Sweden

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This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Sweden. There are legendary accounts of Swedish kings well into prehistory and they are mentioned by Tacitus...

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1187

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the County of Tripoli. Summer – Pillage of Sigtuna: A fleet of Karelians enters Lake Malar and ravages the coast. The marauders burn Sigtuna and kill Archbishop...

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1180s

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the County of Tripoli. Summer – Pillage of Sigtuna: A fleet of Karelians enters Lake Malar and ravages the coast. The marauders burn Sigtuna and kill Archbishop...

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Eysteinn

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on fire burning everyone inside to death. Then Sölve arrived at Sigtuna (Old Sigtuna) and ordered the Swedes to accept him as king. The Swedes refused...

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List of aircraft operated by Scandinavian Airlines

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is the national airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Headquartered in Sigtuna outside Stockholm, Sweden, it operates out of three main hubs, Copenhagen...

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Timeline of Swedish history

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Icelandic history Cities in Sweden Timeline of Gothenburg Timeline of Stockholm history Enn Tarvel (2007). Sigtuna hukkumine. Archived 2017-10-11 at the Wayback...

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Hagbard and Signy

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but the son of a Norwegian king, and Signy was a Swedish princess. The songs also related that Hagbard was hanged not far from Sigtuna in Uppland, where...

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Prehistory and origin of Stockholm

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following a pagan pillaged the city of Sigtuna, and as there was an "Earl" named Birger around at that time too, the disputed origin of the city are likely...

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Karelians

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Karelian raid to the then notable Swedish town of Sigtuna in 1187 and its subsequent pillage. This mention of Karelian raids on Sweden in the chronicle is...

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Timeline of Estonian history

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Estonian Journal of Archaeology. 1 (16supplser): 199. doi:10.3176/arch.2012.supv1.11. Retrieved 27 December 2016. Enn Tarvel (2007). Sigtuna hukkumine. Haridus...

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Viking Age

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have sacked Sigtuna in 1187. The society, economy, settlement and culture of the territory of what is in the present-day the country of Estonia is studied...

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Harald Hardrada

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Neva River, and then into the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. He arrived in Sigtuna in Sweden, probably at the end of 1045 or in early 1046. When he arrived...

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Ganos

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Sigtuna in present-day Sweden.: 152  Although there is an abundance of archaeological evidence, texts do not say anything about the "organization of viticulture"...

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Viking Age in Estonia

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have sacked Sigtuna in 1187. The society, economy, settlement and culture of the territory of what is in the present-day the country of Estonia is studied...

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Timeline of Stockholm history

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975: Birka is abandoned. c. 1000: Sigtuna emerges as the city dominating the Lake Mälaren region. 1247: Battle of Sparrsätra Birger Magnusson defeats...

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Vikings

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Roger Highfield, "Vikings who chose a home in Shetland before a life of pillage" Archived 18 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Telegraph, 7 April 2005...

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Kvenland

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historians[weasel words], the term Sitones (Kvens) shares etymological roots with Sigtuna, which much later had a Latin spelling Situne. According to Disas saga...

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