UNKNOWN Gorm 
UNKNOWN was born about 0867 in Upsala, Sweden or Denmark. UNKNOWN's father was II Harald and his mother is UNKNOWN Elgiva. His paternal grandfather was UNKNOWN Frodo; his maternal grandfather was I Ethelred. He was an only child. He died about 0950.General Notes
ema p 144 "The Danish kingdom consisted of the Jutland peninsula, Funen,Ze
eland, and other islands, and southern Sweden, which remained part of Denm
ark, escept for a brief period, until 1658. . . . GORM the Old, the fir
st king of Denmark who reigned in the mid-900s, established a powerful dyn
asty centered in Jutland. Gorm and his son HARALD II Bluetooth, the fir
st Christian king of Denmark, were the first Vikings to launch full-sca
le attacks beyond the Baltic and North Sea."
bk&q. See Chart 29 "The Danish Kingdom". See also daughter Gunnhildr f
or notes from p 443.
p 443, 445
p. 461 "Canute was a Danish prince, who was probably driven out of Denma
rk when Gorm the Old established the Danish kingship and sought to establi
sh himself in the Northumbrian kingdom of Jorvik."
p. 475 (Athelstan) ". . . Because of a series of political marriages among
st his aunts and his own sisters, Athelstan was on close terms with ma
ny of the major rulers in Europe. These included . . . [a} possible half-
sister who married Gorm the Old, the first king of a united Denmark."
p 738 [VA28]
They had a son named III.
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