Sihtric was a viking leader from Dublin who reigned as king of York. The term Viking is used to denote the ship-borne explorers, traders and warriors who originated in Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden and raided the coasts of the British Isles and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...
Sihtric attacked the kingdom of Mercia from the Mersey which formed part of the border between Mercia and the Viking Kingdom of York.[1] The general location of Mercia, along with the other peoples of Britain around the year 600. ...
In 926 he married King Athelstan of England's daughter in a political move designed by Athelstan to build up his influence in the north of England. Sihtric died suddenly only a year later in 927.[2] Events Bohai is conquered by the Khitan Births Emperor Murakami of Japan Deaths Categories: 926 ... Athelstan or Æþelstan (c. ... Events Hubaekje sacks the Silla capital of Gyeongju and places King Gyeongsun on the throne. ...
Sihtric was survived by a son Olaf whom the Irish nicknamed Cuaran. Olaf Cuaran (d. ...
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^ http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hprs.htm#J771 TimeRef - Sihtric (Norse King of York)
^ Higham, Kingdom of Northumbria, pp. 186–190; Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 339–340.
In 914, the Annals of Ulster report the defeat of Barid son of Oitir by Ragnall grandson of Ivar in the Irish Sea.
It in is the period of dominance of northern Britain by Ragnall and his cousin Sihtric that Causantín is found as an ally of Ealdred of Bernicia and, perhaps, of "Queen" Ethelfleda of Mercia.
Sihtric may have rebelled in 924, but by 926 he had evidently acknowledged Athelstan as over-king, adopting Christianity and marrying a sister of Athelstan at Tamworth.
His name does in fact occur in the Irish Annals of the Four Masters in a stanza attributed to the Irish Queen Gormflaith, who laments the death of her husband, Niall Glundubh, at the hands of Amhlaide in 919 at the battle of Ath-Cliath.
Sihtric was the father of that Olaf Cuaran (also known as Anlaf) who was the prototype of the English Havelok, but nowhere else does he receive the nickname of Amhlaide.
If Amhlaide may really be identified with Sihtric, who first went to Dublin in 888, the relations between the tales of Havelok and Hamlet are readily explicable, since nothing was more likely than that the exploits of father and son should be confounded.
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