SCAN 2202 Lecture 8: DENMARK
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The viking age dannevirke is a: defensive wall in southern jutland/schelswig. Terminology: carolingian empire: empire in context of charlemagne, frankish: the empire, stressing its frankish origins, german: the empire, stressing its german(ic) background, after charlemagne (843), the empire is divided into a frankish (west) part under. Carolus the bald; a central part under lothar; and an eastern part under ludovico the german. Emergence of denmark: unlike norway and sweden, denmark seems to have existed as a named polity in the viking age. The jelling stone mentions denmark, we must assume that people knew that this was a defined region. We cannot be sure that this region corresponded precisely to what today is modern denmark: emergence. Seems to have been an early maritime polity comprising scania and. Functioned as the gateway to the baltic, probably was the maritime link between western europe and the baltic area.