Early Middle Ages(600 – 1100)

Timeline:Early Middle Ages

732 Battle of Tours

793 Vikings raid Lindisfarne

800 Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor

962 Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor

1066 Norman Conquest of England

gold-friend

ring-giver hater of the fire of the deep

breaker of rings

Nágǫlum fekk Naglinest dáliga flestum;kafsunnu réð kennirklǫkkr á fjall at stǫkkva.

Heldr gekk hjalmi faldinn,hjaldrs, at vápna galdri,þurþi eldr um alder, Alfgeirr af hvǫt meiri.

Nagli fed most of the corpse-geese poorly; the knower of the sun of the deep rushed tearful on to the hill.

Alfgeirr moved, wearing his helmet, with greater boldness into the song of weapons;the flame of battle rushed over men.

Þeir fóru drengilaFiarri at gulliOk austarlaErni gáfu.

Dóu sunnarlaÁ Serklandi.

They fared like men far after gold and in the east gave the eagle food.

They died in the south in Serkland.

Harald “Hard-ruler”

Harold Godwinson

William “the Bastard”