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    Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. As...
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    Ernman. Uppsala was originally the name of a place a few kilometres north of the current city, now known as Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala). Today's Uppsala was...
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    Gamla Uppsala museum is a historical museum in Gamla Uppsala, in the northern part of Uppsala, Sweden. The museum is oriented towards the Vendel era and...
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    The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in the ancient Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested...
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    altitude in Gamla Uppsala (old Uppsala), about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the current city. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, old Uppsala grew into an...
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    helmet, while a small fragment of stamped foil from the eastern mound at Gamla Uppsala is "so close in every respect to the corresponding warrior on the Sutton...
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    official residence of the governor of Uppsala County, various businesses, and two museums. Nearby Gamla Uppsala was an important religious and aristocratic...
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    fence. The most famous heathen hof of the Viking Age is that at Gamla Uppsala ("Old Uppsala") in Sweden, which was described by Adam of Bremen around 1070...
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    Viking Age, the pagan temple at Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the north of today's Uppsala, was replaced by a Christian church...
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  • religious centre in Uppsala is the best known account of pre-Christian rituals in Sweden. There is general agreement that Gamla Uppsala was one of the last...
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  • Uppsala may refer to: Uppsala city Gamla Uppsala, a village outside Uppsala city, important in Norse paganism Uppsala Airport (ICAO code ESCM) Uppsala...
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    Vallsgärde is a farm on the Fyris river, about three kilometres north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden...
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    well-preserved boat inhumation graves at Vendel and Valsgärde, and tumuli at Gamla Uppsala. These were used for several generations. Some of the riches were probably...
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  • Uppsala öd (Old Norse: Uppsala auðr or Uppsala øðr, meaning Uppsala domains or wealth of Uppsala) was the name given to the collection of estates which...
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    Uppsala Old Cemetery (Swedish: Uppsala gamla kyrkogård) is a cemetery in Uppsala, Sweden. Greta Arwidsson (1906–1998) Lasse Eriksson (1949–2011) Gustaf...
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    Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes. They had their tribal centre in Gamla Uppsala. The first author who wrote about the tribe is Tacitus, who in his Germania...
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  • timeline of the History of Uppsala. ca 1000 BC – Håga mound. ca 800 BC – Granhammarsmannen. ca 0 – Yngvi found the city of Gamla Uppsala according to Heimskringla...
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    may confirm elements of the Beowulf story. Eadgils was buried at Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala, Sweden) according to Snorri Sturluson. When the western mound (to...
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    was buried at Gamla Uppsala. Birger Nerman suggested that he was buried in the Western mound (also known as Thor's mound) at Gamla Uppsala. An excavation...
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    England Steinsland & Sørensen 1998, p. 84. Friberg 2000, B. Gräslund, "Gamla Uppsala During the Migration Period", p. 11. Steinsland & Sørensen 1998, pp...
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    Eric and Agnar came into the lake Mälaren. They send a messenger to Gamla Uppsala asking Eysteinn to meet them. They then demand that Eysteinn be their...
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    burial mound. Gamla Uppsala, The Royal mounds (Swedish: Kungshögarna) is the name for the three large barrows which are located in Gamla Uppsala. According...
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    Sweden. Uppsala (then a village) was originally located a couple of miles to the north of the present city, in what is today known as Gamla Uppsala (Old...
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    lines of grave mounds below the royal hall at Edoras, like those at Gamla Uppsala in Sweden, or Sutton Hoo in England. In 2758, Rohan was invaded by Dunlendings...
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    the White Horse Stone in Kent. Swedish Heathens have done the same at Gamla Uppsala, and Icelandic practitioners have met at Þingvellir. Heathen groups...
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    Saga Sunniva Bergh, "Vårblotet i Gamla Uppsala," Gamla Uppsala För och Nu 2009[permanent dead link], Uppsala: Gamla Upsala Hembygdsförening, 2009, ISBN 978-9197439961...
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    Uppsala University (UU) (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university...
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    gravfält; the cemeteries of Birka, a World Heritage Site; Valsgärde; Gamla Uppsala; Hulterstad gravfält, near Alby; Hulterstad, Öland, Gotland. Denmark:...
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    claimed as the progenitor of the Swedish Yngling dynasty, reigning from Gamla Uppsala. According to the Grottasöngr, Fjölnir lived from the 1st century BC...
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    the Victorious, yet were defeated in the Battle of Fýrisvellir near Gamla Uppsala in the mid 980s, probably in 986. Sweyn Forkbeard and a force of Jomsvikings...
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