• The Wingfeather Saga is a series of four children's fantasy novels written by singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson. It is being adapted into a free-to-watch...
    16 KB (1,301 words) - 16:37, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Götaland
    Norwegian. The province of Småland, with the historically important city Kalmar on its coast, was sparsely populated and the status of the Baltic island...
    14 KB (1,402 words) - 03:15, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Öland
    Öland (category Islands of Kalmar County)
    by the Kalmar Strait and connected to it by the 6-kilometre (3+1⁄2 mi) Öland Bridge, which opened on 30 September 1972. The county seat Kalmar is on the...
    24 KB (1,823 words) - 06:13, 25 October 2024
  • Karlsson (Vasa) (1433–1465), Swedish clergyman and regent of Sweden under the Kalmar Union from February 1464 to August 1465 Kettil Runske, according to Olaus...
    537 bytes (103 words) - 01:04, 25 August 2023
  • the Black Death struck Europe—is considered the Older Middle Ages. The Kalmar Union between the Scandinavian countries was established in 1397 and lasted...
    20 KB (2,560 words) - 17:25, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
    the Engelbrekt rebellion in 1434 against Eric of Pomerania, king of the Kalmar Union. Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was the owner of a mine and ironworks in...
    9 KB (965 words) - 16:09, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scandinavia
    centuries saw various unions of Scandinavian nations, most notably the Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which lasted for over 100 years until...
    86 KB (8,669 words) - 01:13, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
    The church participated in a political process both before and during the Kalmar Union that aimed at[clarification needed] Swedish side, to establish a position...
    48 KB (5,255 words) - 11:31, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olaf II of Norway
    historical figure among some members of the Lutheran and Anglican Communions. The saga of Olav Haraldsson and the legend of Olaf the Saint became central to a national...
    52 KB (6,004 words) - 01:40, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inge the Younger
    alive when the Norwegian king Sigurd I of Norway invaded Småland in the Kalmar Crusade in 1123, but when Inge died, it was the end of the House of Stenkil...
    5 KB (452 words) - 14:53, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Iceland
    (1376). Eventually all of the Nordic states were united in one alliance, the Kalmar Union (1397–1523), but on its dissolution, Iceland fell under Danish rule...
    73 KB (8,490 words) - 04:47, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norse settlements in Greenland
    Ari's involvement, the anonymous Grænlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) and the also anonymous Saga of Erik the Red. But there is also information...
    64 KB (9,026 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amanda Ooms
    Amanda Ooms (category Actors from Kalmar)
    acted in both film and TV in Sweden and internationally. She was born in Kalmar. Ooms participates in season 10 of Stjärnorna på slottet which was broadcast...
    4 KB (230 words) - 14:52, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Håkan the Red
    "History of Scandinavia: I. Scandinavia to 1523: From 1050 to the Union of Kalmar: Sweden", p.308. Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen...
    13 KB (1,045 words) - 01:04, 13 March 2024
  • False Olaf (category People executed by the Kalmar Union)
    Master of the Teutonic Order, Konrad von Jungingen escorted the pretender to Kalmar to be interviewed by the Queen. As soon as the man arrived, he was discovered...
    6 KB (743 words) - 14:10, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iceland
    the 13th century. In 1397, Iceland followed Norway's integration into the Kalmar Union along with the kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden, coming under de facto...
    219 KB (19,903 words) - 05:36, 8 November 2024
  • Sources". In Saga-Book of the Viking Club: Vol. VI Proceedings. University of London King's College, 1909, pp. 40–41. "Heimskringla: Saga of Olaf Haraldson:...
    69 KB (349 words) - 16:48, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faroe Islands
    11th century. The Faroe Islands followed Norway's integration into the Kalmar Union in 1397, and came under de facto Danish rule following that union's...
    151 KB (16,029 words) - 19:07, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Swedish monarchs
    Sweden was often united with Denmark and Norway under the kings of the Kalmar Union. Sweden's full independence was restored under Gustav I in 1523. He...
    77 KB (3,021 words) - 15:46, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Danish monarchs
    Denmark (up to 1397) Personal union of Denmark and Norway (1380–1397) The Kalmar Union (1397–1536) Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1397–1523) Union...
    50 KB (1,472 words) - 18:37, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Scandinavia
    The Kalmar War in 1611–1613 was the last serious (although possibly unrealistic) attempt by a Danish King (Christian IV) to re-create the Kalmar Union...
    64 KB (7,952 words) - 21:57, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stockholm
    Stockholm an important factor in relations between the Danish Kings of the Kalmar Union and the Swedish national independence movement in the fifteenth century...
    158 KB (13,802 words) - 07:52, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petty kingdoms of Norway
    their realms. The main written sources we have on this period, the kings' sagas, were not written until the 12th and 13th centuries. While they were in...
    12 KB (1,243 words) - 16:41, 1 November 2024
  • Infante The Petty Girl George Petty Robert Cummings Three Little Words Bert Kalmar Fred Astaire Harry Ruby Red Skelton Young Man with a Horn Bix Beiderbecke...
    284 KB (198 words) - 05:12, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Denmark
    control of the Baltic Sea. In 1397, it joined Norway and Sweden to form the Kalmar Union, which persisted until the latter's secession in 1523. The remaining...
    224 KB (20,553 words) - 21:37, 5 November 2024
  • Abdu Lumala (category Kalmar FF players)
    Olympiacos wanting to sign him. Abdu instead ended up in Swedish top flight club Kalmar FF. In his first season, he played 10 league matches. Ahead of the 2017...
    12 KB (1,040 words) - 02:49, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earl of Orkney
    Scotland married Margaret of Denmark, her father, Christian I, king of the Kalmar Union, was unable to immediately provide a dowry. Instead, he promised that...
    35 KB (2,637 words) - 20:23, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norway
    Norway (section Kalmar Union)
    Queen Margaret when the country entered into the Kalmar Union. After Sweden broke out of the Kalmar Union in 1521, Norway tried to follow suit,[citation...
    226 KB (20,846 words) - 00:59, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haakon IV
    policies initiated the build-up to the later personal unions (called the Kalmar Union), that in the end had dire consequences for Norway as it did not have...
    42 KB (5,312 words) - 14:12, 6 November 2024
  • essentially forgotten. The song was first recorded in Hungarian by pop singer Pál Kalmár in 1935. "Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936...
    29 KB (2,646 words) - 10:00, 1 October 2024