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Halfdene
Halfdan ("half Dane") is an Old Norse masculine given name. In ''Beowulf'' it is spelled Healfdene, and in Latin sources Haldan. It may refer to: Mythical figures: * Halfdan, legendary king of the Scyldings in Beowulf, who also appears in Norse mythology *Halfdan the Old, ancient legendary king * Halfdan Hvitbeinn, mythical petty king in Norway *Halfdan the Valiant (7th century), legendary father of Ivar Vidfamne *Hálfdan Brönufostri, subject of the legendary saga '' Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra'' *Halfdan Eysteinsson, subject of the legendary saga '' Hálfdanar saga Eysteinssonar'' People: *Halfdan (floruit 782–807), Danish client of the Franks * Halfdan the Black (c. 820 – c. 860), father of Harald I of Norway *Halfdan Ragnarsson (died 877), Viking, leader of the Great Heathen Army *Halfdan, possible name of the author of an inscription on a Hagia Sofia parapet * Halfdan Haraldsson the Black, Norwegian petty king and grandson of Halfdan the Black *Halfdan, a joint King of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Ragnarsson (; or ''Healfdene''; ; died 877) was a Viking leader and a commander of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England starting in 865. Halfdan was one of six sons of Ragnar Lodbrok named in Norse sagas; his brothers and half-brothers included Björn Ironside, Ivar the Boneless, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Ubba and Hvitserk. Because Halfdan is not mentioned in any source that mentions Hvitserk, some scholars have suggested that they are the same individual – a possibility reinforced by the fact that Halfdan was a relatively common name among Vikings and ''Hvitserk'' "white shirt" may have been an epithet or nickname that distinguished Halfdan from other men by the same name. Halfdan was the first Viking King of Northumbria and a pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Dublin. It is also possible he was for a time co-ruler of Denmark with his brother Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye, because Frankish sources mention a certain Sigfred and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.* * * Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, has roughly List of islands of Denmark, 1,400 islands greater than in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Christensen
Halfdan Christensen (12 December 1873 – 17 September 1950) was a Norwegian stage actor and theatre director. Biography Christensen was born at Porsgrunn in Telemark, Norway. His family moved to Kristiania (now Oslo) where he attended Aars og Voss skole and later attended Kristiania Handelsgymnasium. In 1894, he conducted a study trip to Denmark and Germany. He had his stage début at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen during 1896. He was among the leading actors at the National Theatre from its opening in 1899. In 1907, Christensen began to act as stage director. He was theatre director from 1911 to 1923, and again from 1930 to 1933. During the Second World War he had to flee to Sweden, and there he led the theatre '' Fri norsk scene'' together with his wife Gerda Ring. After returning to Norway after the liberation in 1945, he had held various positions at the National Theater. During the 1920s and 1930s, he had written three plays, all of which were performed at the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Strøm
Halfdan Strøm (4 November 1863 – 28 March 1949) was a Norwegian painter and an early representative of realism in Norwegian painting. He attended the Royal Drawing School in Kristiania (now Oslo). In 1883, he debuted at the Industrial and Art Exhibition at Tullinløkka, site of the Norwegian Geographical Survey in Oslo. During the period 1883–84, he was in Munich. During 1884, he participated in an outdoor academy conducted by Frits Thaulow in Modum. In 1889, he entered two paintings at the World Exhibition in Paris and achieved an honorable mention. Later Strøm earned gold medals at the World Exhibition of Paris in 1900, as well as international exhibits in Munich in 1901 and San Francisco in 1915. Strøm was a professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1935, and Director there from 1924. Strøm was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1910, and was a Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Rasmussen
Halfdan Wedel Rasmussen (29 January 1915 in Copenhagen – 2 March 2002) was a Danish poet. He was known for his literary nonsense verse for children and his serious adult writings about social issues and human rights. He was awarded with the Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) in 1965. Career Rasmussen was a resistance fighter during the German occupation. In the summer of 1942 he rented a cottage at Engestofte from future Danish Resistance hero Monica Wichfeld, sharing it with journalist Hilmar Wulff and his new wife, teacher Karen Inga Petersen. In 1943 he married writer Ester Nagel. They divorced in 1973. They had two children, actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen (1945) and singer-songwriter Tom Nagel Rasmussen (1946). He became very well known and respected as a poet, nearly becoming a national poet of Denmark. One of his poems, '' Ikke Bødlen'', was featured as one of the best poems on Human Rights on a 1979 book published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Nielsen
Halfdan Nicolaus Nielsen (26 March 1874 – 21 June 1952) was a Norwegian speedskater Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, .... He was the second registered world record holder in 10,000 m, when he improved Oskar Fredriksen's record in Stockholm in 1893. World record Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com References 1874 births 1952 deaths Norwegian male speed skaters World record setters in speed skating {{Norway-speed-skater-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan T
Halfdan (, , Medieval : "half Dane") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem ''Beowulf'' and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts. Various accounts According to the ''Chronicon Lethrense'' and Saxo Grammaticus' ''Gesta Danorum'' (Book 2), Halfdan had two brothers named Ro and Skat who also sought the throne. Both were killed by Halfdan. Saxo adds that his brothers' supporters were hanged and that Halfdan continued to reign with great cruelty, but that he reigned long and died peaceably in extreme old age. The ''Ynglinga saga'' gives Halfdan (in this work also son of a king named Fróði) a brother named Fridleif and says both were great warriors but that Halfdan was the better of the two. This might have been a lead-in to a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Lehmann
Halfdan Lehmann (1825-1908) was a Norway, Norwegian politician in the late 19th and early 20th century. He served as state secretary in Kristiania during 1879–1906. He also held multiple temporary positions including Acting Minister of Education and Church Affairs in 1881 and 1884, Acting Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs in 1884. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Kjerulf
Halfdan Kjerulf (17 September 181511 August 1868) was a Norway, Norwegian composer. Biography Kjerulf was born in Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of a high government official. His early education was at University of Christiania, Christiania University, for a legal career, but his studies ended in 1839 as a result of illness, and the next year he spent some time in Paris. Soon after his return his father and two siblings died and he took a job as a journalist at one of Oslo's main newspapers, ''Den Constitutionelle'' where Andreas Munch (1811–1884) was editor and where Kjerulf worked until 1845. Kjerulf started his career as a music teacher and composer of songs before ever having seriously studied music at all, and not for ten years did he attract any particular notice. He was counted among those in the Modern Breakthrough movement in literature, painting and music which was replacing romanticism within Scandinavia. It was typified by the poet Johan S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Jønsson
Halfdan Jønsson (15 May 1891 – 7 February 1945) was a Norwegian trade unionist and resistance member. He was born in Frol Municipality. He was elected chairman of the Norwegian Union of Chemical Industry Workers in 1924. In 1934 he served as vice chairman of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, until November. He died in the Dachau concentration camp Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ... in 1945. References 1891 births 1945 deaths People from Levanger Norwegian resistance members Norwegian trade unionists People who died in Dachau concentration camp Norwegian people imprisoned in Germany Norwegian people who died in Nazi concentration camps {{Norway-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Holth
Halfdan Holth (1880 – 1950) was a Norwegian veterinarian. He was born in Nordre Odalen Municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. He became a professor at the National Veterinary Institute in 1914, and managing director in 1917. From 1917 to 1930 he also edited the journal ''Norsk veterinærtidsskrift''. He was later instrumental in the creation of the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, and served as its first rector from 1936 to 1948. Holth was also noted for his work to eliminate the diseases bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis Brucellosis is a zoonosis spread primarily via ingestion of raw milk, unpasteurized milk from infected animals. It is also known as undulant fever, Malta fever, and Mediterranean fever. The bacteria causing this disease, ''Brucella'', are small ..., together with Niels Thorshaug and Lars Slagsvold. References 1880 births 1950 deaths People from Nord-Odal Norwegian veterinarians Academic staff of the Norwegian School of Veteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfdan Hegtun
Halfdan Hegtun (8 October 1918 – 25 December 2012) was a Norwegian radio personality, comedian and writer, former politician for the Liberal Party and later the Liberal People's Party. Politics Hegtun was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1965, and was re-elected on one occasion. During his second term, in December 1972, Hegtun joined the Liberal People's Party which split from the Liberal Party over disagreements of Norway's proposed entry to the European Economic Community. Like most of the Liberal People's Party representatives, he was not re-elected in 1973. Hegtun was a member of Akershus county council during the terms 1983–1987 and 1987–1991, and was later involved in local politics in Bærum. He had rejoined the Liberal Party in 1988. Radio career Hegtun worked for BBC in London 1946–1948, and later for NRK The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
