Re: *dan-

> Harald's accredited feats MAY more appropriately belong to his

father, Gorm

> (Harald just cutting his name in more stones, after quelling

insurrections).

> Gorm is the first known and probable patriarch of that significant
> Dynasty..but there are several variants on it. Harald was 10th

century,

> however, and there are significant 8th century (dendrochron. dated)
> fortifications (the Danevirke) across the neck of Jutland,

indicating even

> earlier unity. Also by the 8th, portions of the English coast were

Danish

> dominated (distinct from earlier Jute incursions) and referred to

as the

> Danelaw..this centuries before Harald's son, Sven I, took all of

England.

> Thinking only a possible influence on that -deans usage in England

that

> Piotr references..river and stream mouths were favored incursion

spots for

> Viking and pre-Viking Danes..and flat or shallow valleys the best

settlement

> spots off the access waterway. That pattern repeats again with the

incursion

> into Normandy, where Rollo emerged.
>

[snip]

> Cu Stima;
> Rex H. McTyeire
> Bucharest, Romania

The wooden bridge across the valley opening to Vejle Fjord, used for
a decade and then abandoned, and the circular fortresses,
alternatively explained as POW camps or "safe hamlets" (Trelleborg,
Fyrkat, Nonnebakken, one at Løgstør, the name of which escapes me,
and Trelleborg in Scania; træl "thrall", slave i.e. POW, have been
dendrochronologigically fixed in Haralds reign.

Torsten