Coin minted for Anund Jakob

Anund Jakob (Old Icelandic: Önundr Óláfsson, Old Swedish: Æmundær colbrænnæ, meaning "Emund coal-burner") was King of Sweden 1022-1050. He is believed to have been born in 25th of July 1008 as Jakob. When the Swedish counsel, the Thing, was to elect him the co-ruler of Sweden, the people objected to his non-Scandinavian name. They then gave him the pronomen Anund, which they did when they found a name too difficult. (See also the later Anund Gårdske). Image File history File links Mynt_präglat_av_Anund_Jakob_Jonsson,_Nordisk_familjebok. ... Image File history File links Mynt_präglat_av_Anund_Jakob_Jonsson,_Nordisk_familjebok. ... The Old Icelandic language was the most prominent of the Old Norse languages. ... Old Swedish (Swedish: fornsvenska), general linguistic term for medieval Swedish. ... Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy based on a parliamentary system. ... Events Several Catharist heretics are killed in Toulouse. ... Leofric becomes Bishop of Exeter Hedeby is sacked by King Harald Hardraade of Norway during the course of a conflict with King Eric Estridsson of Denmark. ... Events Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized. ... A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free men of the community and presided by lawspeakers. ... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... Anund GÃ¥rdske came from Kievan Rus, but is only mentioned by Adam of Bremen. ...

The Westrogothic law says that he was called Kolbränna ("Coal-burner") as he had the habit of disposing of opponents by burning them to death inside their houses. A copy of the Early Westrogothic law from the late 13th century Västgötalagen or the Westrogothic law is the oldest Swedish text written in the Latin script and the oldest law code of the Lands of Sweden. ...

His political agenda was to maintain the balance of power in Scandinavia. That is why he supported the Norwegian kings Olaf II and Magnus I against Denmark's king Canute during the 1020s and 1030s. At the Battle of the Helgeå, Anund and Olaf were defeated by Canute. Consequently, Canute subjugated for some time the core provinces of Sweden around lake Mälaren where he had his own coins minted in Sigtuna. Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – July 29, 1030), king from 1015–1028, (known during his lifetime as the Stout or Thick (Olav Digre) and after his canonization as Saint Olaf), was born in the year in which Olaf Tryggvason came to Norway. ... Magnus I (1024 - October 25, 1047) was a King of Norway (1035 - 1047) and king of Denmark (1042 - 1047). ... Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige, Swedish: Knut den store) (ca. ... Combatants Denmark Sweden and Norway Commanders Canute the Great Anund Jacob and Olaf the Stout The naval Battle of the HelgeÃ¥ took place in 1026, between Denmark and the other Scandinavians, at the estuary of a river called HelgeÃ¥. Opinions are divided on whether it was the HelgeÃ¥ of Uppland... Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige, Swedish: Knut den store) (ca. ... Location map Mälaren details, with Stockholm urban area to the right in pink. ... Sigtuna is a city in central Sweden in the metropolitan area of Stockholm. ...

When Magnus I became king of Norway and Denmark in 1042, Anund Jakob supported him until the death of Magnús in 1047. Anund Jakob's reign has traditionally been dated to c. 1022-1050, but there is a great uncertainty over the year he died. He was probably alive 1049 and his brother and successor Emund is certain to have ruled Sweden in the summer of 1060. Anund died during an attack to Finland in the mid-1000s.^[1] Magnus I (1024 - October 25, 1047) was a King of Norway (1035 - 1047) and king of Denmark (1042 - 1047). ... Events April 18/April 19 - Emperor Michael V of the Byzantine Empire attempts to remain sole Emperor by sending his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoe of Byzantium to a monastery. ...

Two skalds are known to have served Anund Jacob: Sighvatr Þórðarson and Óttarr svarti. The skald was a member of a group of courtly poets, whose poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry. ... Sigvatr Þórðarson was a court poet to the kings Olaf II of Norway, Canute the Great, Magnus the Good and Anund Jacob, by whose reigns his floreat can be dated to the earlier eleventh century. ... Óttarr svarti (The Black) was an 11th century Icelandic skald. ...

The Hervarar saga has very little to tell about Anund: Hervarar saga ok Heidhreks is a fornaldarsaga from the 13th century using material from an older saga. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ Kajanti, Caius (1997). Siniristilippumme, page 30. Otava Publishing Company Ltd, Helsinki. ISBN 951-1-13552-X
2. ^ Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Guðni Jónsson's og Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition at «Norrøne Tekster og Kvad».
3. ^ The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, in Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese), by N. Kershaw.Cambridge at the University Press, 1921.