Visitors can enjoy beautiful overlooks, including Drake's Seat and Valdemar Hill. |
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On 15 August 1193, he married Ingeborg, daughter of King Valdemar I of Denmark. |
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All the sagas agree that Olaf eventually ended up in Kievan Rus', at the court of King Valdemar. |
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Six years later, Sigurd Eirikson traveled to Estonia to collect taxes for King Valdemar. |
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In 1363, Haakon VI married Margaret, the daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark. |
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He is thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the main advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. |
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Valdemar I had also just won a civil war and later Valdemar II led an expedition across the Elbe to invade Holstein. |
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Valdemar himself was saved only by the courageous actions of a German knight who carried Valdemar to safety on his horse. |
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After Cnut's death in 1035, England and Norway were lost, and with the defeat of Valdemar II in 1227, Danish predominance in the region came to an end. |
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From that time on Valdemar focused his efforts on domestic affairs. |
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Sigurd then went to Reas and bought Olaf and Thorgils out from slavery, and took the boys with him to Novgorod to live under the protection of Valdemar. |
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Since this book is so large and Absalon has greater importance than King Valdemar I, this book may have been written first and comprised a work on its own. |
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It is possible that Saxo then enlarged it with Books 15 and 16, telling the story of King Valdemar I's last years and King Canute VI's first years. |
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