Crossword clues for northman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northman \North"man\ (n[^o]rth"man), prop. n.; pl. Northmen. One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
Wikipedia
Northman (; fl. 994) was a late 10th-century English ealdorman (or earl), with a territorial base in Northumbria north of the River Tees. He appears in two different strands of source. These are, namely, the textual tradition of Durham witnessed by Historia de Sancto Cuthberto and the Durham Liber Vitae, and an appearance in a witness list of a charter of King Æthelred II dated to 994. The latter is Northman's only appearance south of the Humber, and came the year after Northumbria was attacked by Vikings.
Neither of these witnesses provide a patronymic nor an "earldom". There is a possibility therefore that the two Northmans are different characters, though they are generally thought to be the same. Almost nothing is known about Northman besides being an ealdorman in northern Northumbia, our ignorance extending to the identities of his parents and any children or spouses he may have had.
Northman ( fl. 994) was a Northumbrian ealdorman.
Northman may also refer to:
- Northman, son of Leofwine (died 1017), Mercian thegn
- Northman, a viking
- Edith Northman, American architect
- Eric Northman, a character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries
- Pam Northman, better known as Pamela Swynford De Beaufort, a character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Usage examples of "northman".
With the grouping of the settlements into kingdoms and the consolidation of Mercia under Offa, Buckinghamshire was included in Mercia until, with the submission of that kingdom to the Northmen, it became part of the Danelaw.
He became the first of the High Kings, and his legendary battles with Firbolgs and northmen made for stirring verse.
She noted with revulsion that a band of Firbolgs had joined the northmen.
Aurelianus was lowered next, and Duffy and the northmen were about to follow when the Irishman heard, a dozen yards to the right, the rutch of a pebble turning under a boot.
She could see the long blond hair and coarse beards of Northmen, and thought she knew the stockier bodies of her own Ffolk.
It was a simple room, constructed according to the Northmen taste with an intricate webbing of exposed wooden beams and furnished with a massive pine table and five unpadded chairs.
If the Northmen from the Hellers joined this war, there would be ravage and disaster.
The northmen leaped from their boats into the shallow water, then hurriedly pulled their longships high onto the shore.
He has been in the service of Janos,” Bela replied, “and has come to lead the northmen against Baalzebub.
All by himself, too, since Bugge and the northmen have finally convinced him that they don't want to be knights of the round table.
Von Salm would never let me have any troops, of course, for an unexplainable midnight sortie, but he did say once that he'd be grateful if I'd take Bugge and the other northmen off his hands.
Aurelianus had been crouched in the bow, talking in an undertone to Bugge and the three northmen, but rose when he heard Duffy stir.
He has ordered the gathering of companies from the cantrevs - we have had reports of a great mustering of northmen.
One was the custom of "private war" which disordered social life, and the other was the superabundant fighting energy of the Low Germans and Christianized Northmen and particularly of the Franks and Normans.
And yet the Northmen were cheerful, and joked and drank for an evening in this sea village of Lenneborg, and disported themselves with many of the women and slave girls.