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See also:ADAM OF See also:BREMEN , historian and geographer, was probably See also:born in Upper See also:Saxony (at See also:Meissen, according to one tradition) before 1045. He came to Bremen about ro67–1068, most likely on the invitation of See also:Archbishop See also:Adalbert, and in the 24th See also:year of the latter's episcopate (1o43?–1o72); in ro6g he appears as a See also:canon of this See also:cathedral and See also:master of the cathedral school. Not See also:long after this he visited the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Denmark, Sweyn Estrithson, in See also:Zealand; on the See also:death of Adalbert, in 1072, he began the Historia Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae, which he finished about 1075. He died on the 12th of See also:October of a year unknown, perhaps 1076. Adam's Historia—known also as Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, Bremensium praesulum Historia, and Historia ecclesiasiica—is a See also:primary authority, not only for the See also:great See also:diocese of See also:Hamburg-and-Bremen, but for all See also:North See also:German and Baltic lands (down to 1072), and for the Scandinavian colonies as far as See also:America. Here occurs the earliest mention of See also:Vinland, and here are also references of great See also:interest to See also:Russia and See also:Kiev, to the See also:heathen Prussians, the See also:Wends and other Slav races of the See also:South Baltic See also:coast, and to See also:Finland, See also:Thule or See also:Iceland, See also:Greenland and the Polar seas which See also:Harald Hardrada and the nobles of Frisia had attempted to explore in Adam's own See also:day (before ro66). Adam's See also:account of North See also:European See also:trade at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and especially of the great markets of Jumne at the mouth of the See also:Oder, of Birka in See also:Sweden and of Ostrogard (Old See also:Novgorod?) in Russia, is also of much value. His See also:work, which places him among the first and best of German See also:annalists, consists of four books or parts, and is compiled partly from written records and partly from oral See also:information, the latter mainly gathered from experience or at the courts of Adalbert and Sweyn Estrithson. Of his See also:minor informants he names several, such as Adelward, See also:dean of Bremen, and See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Englishman, " See also:bishop of Zealand," formerly See also:chancellor of Canute the Great, and an intimate of Sweyn Estrithson. The See also:fourth (perhaps the most important) See also:book of Adam's See also:History, variously entitled Libellus de Situ Daniae et reliquarum quae trans Daniam sunt regionurn, Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis, &c., has often been considered, but wrongly, as a See also:separate work.
Ten See also:MSS. exist, of which the See also:chief are (1-2) See also:Copenhagen, Royal Library, Old Royal Collection, No. 2296, of 12th to 13th cents.
; No. 718, of 15th cent. ; (3) See also:Leyden University, See also:Voss. See also:Lat. 123, of 11th cent.; (4) See also:Rome, Vatican Library, 2010; (5) See also:Vienna, See also:Hof-u. Staatsbibliothek, 413, of 13th cent. ; (6) Wolfenbiittel, Ducal Library, Gud. 83, of 15th cent.
There are 15 See also:editions of the Historia, in whole or See also:part; the first published at Copenhagen, 1579 (the first of the Libellus or Descriptio Ins. Aquil. appeared at See also:Stockholm in 1615), the best at See also:Hanover, 1846 (by See also:Lappenberg, in Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum; reissued by L. Weiland, 1876), and at See also:Paris, 1884 (in See also:Migne's Patrologia See also:Latina, cxlvi.). There are also three German versions, and one Danish; the best is by J.
C. M. See also:Laurent (and W. See also:Wattenbach) in Geschichtsschreiber d. See also:deutsch. Vorzeit, part vii. (185o and 1888) . See also J. Asmussen, De fontibus Adami Bremensis, 1834; Lappenberg in See also:Pertz, Archiv, vi, 770; Aug. See also:Bernard, De Adamo Bremensi (Paris, 1895); Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography, ii. 514-548 (1901).
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