Information: - The second part of Snorri Sturluson's "Prose Edda" the Skaldskaparmal ([skaldskaparmal], , "language of poetry"; c. 50,000 words) is effectively a dialogue between gir, the Norse god of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined. The origin of a number of "kennings" is given; then Bragi delivers a systematic list of "kennings" for various people, places and things. He then goes on to discuss poetic language in some detail, in particular "heiti", the concept of poetical words which are non-periphrastic (like "steed" for "horse"), and again systematises these. This in a way forms an early form of poetic thesaurus. - Skoglar Toste or Skoglar Tosti ( there are several variations ) was a legendary chieftain from the Swedish province of West Gotaland . His name ( skoglar , skauglar or skagul ) was reportedly due to his experience in battle . Toste is mentioned in several sagas , most notable in Heimskringla . According to Snorri Sturluson , he was the father of Sigrid the Haughty . For some time he gave refuge to Harald Grenske , who later came back to woo Sigrid , only to be killed by her for his persistence . According to the sagas , Skagul Toste was also the father of Ulf Tostesson , father of Ragnvald Ulfsson and grandfather of Stenkil who became the King of Sweden in 1060 . Toste is said to have collected great riches when he demanded danegeld as he led a Viking army to England in 970 . At Vallentuna , near Stockholm , the runestone of Orkesta ( U 344 ) reads : in ulfr hafir onklati - Stenkil (Old Norse: Steinkell) was a King of Sweden who ruled c. 1060 until 1066. He succeeded Emund the Old and became the first king from the House of Stenkil. He was not from Uppsala, but probably from Vastergotland and related to the previous dynasty by marriage to Emund's daughter. - Vastergotland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden ("landskap" in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden. - Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmal) or (Nynorsk); Sami: "Norgga"), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands (since 1035), Greenland (1261), and Iceland (1262). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468. It also included the following provinces, now in Sweden: Jamtland, Harjedalen and Bohuslan. - Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigri Storrada, is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark. Sigrid appears in many sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable evidence as to her existence as they describe her. The figure of Sigrid appears mainly in late Icelandic sagas, while more contemporary sources such as Thietmar of Merseburg and Adam of Bremen instead claim that Sweyn was married to a Polish princess, identified as witosawa. Snorri Sturlason gives conflicting information and in one place says that Sweyn was married to Sigrid and in another that he was married to a Gunhild of Wenden. - Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Europe. The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark is the sovereign state that comprises Denmark proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of , and a population of 5.7million. The country consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand and Funen. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. - Snorri Sturluson (1179 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the "Prose Edda" or "Younger Edda", which consists of "Gylfaginning" ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the "Skaldskaparmal", a book of poetic language, and the "Hattatal", a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the "Heimskringla", a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in "Ynglinga saga" and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of "Egil's saga". - The Alingi (anglicised as or ) is the national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest extant parliamentary institutions in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at , the "assembly fields" or "Parliament fields", situated approximately east of what later became the country's capital, Reykjavik. This event marked the beginning of the Icelandic Commonwealth. Even after Iceland's union with Norway in 1262, the Althing still held its sessions at until 1799, when it was discontinued for 45 years. It was restored in 1844 and moved to Reykjavik, where it has resided ever since. The present parliament building, the , was built in 1881, of hewn Icelandic stone. - Gylfaginning ([glvagng] either "Tricking of Gylfi" or "Gylfi's empowerment"; c. 20,000 words), is the first part of Snorri Sturluson's "Prose Edda" after Prologue. The "Gylfaginning" deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology. The second part of the Prose Edda is called the "Skaldskaparmal" and the third "Hattatal". - Harald Grenske (10th century) was a petty king in Vestfold in Norway. - Egil's Saga is an Icelandic saga. The oldest manuscript (a fragment) dates back to 1240 AD. The saga is centered on the life of Egill Skallagrimsson (often Anglicised as Egil Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. It is generally referred to as Egla by Icelandic scholars. The saga is the only source of information on the exploits of Egill whose life is not historically recorded. Stylistic and other similarities between "Egil's Saga" and "Heimskringla" have led many scholars to believe that they were the work of the same author, Snorri Sturluson. - The Hattatal ("conversation of meters"; c. 20,000 words) is the last section of the "Prose Edda" composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson. Using, for the most part, his own compositions, it exemplifies the types of verse forms used in Old Norse poetry. Snorri took a prescriptive as well as descriptive approach; he has systematized the material, and often notes that "the older poets did not always" follow his rules. - Emund the Old or Edmund (Swedish: "Emund den gamle", Old Swedish: "munr gaml", "munr gammal", "munr slem") was King of Sweden from 1050 to 1060. - Uppsala (older spelling "Upsala") is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. It had 140,454 inhabitants in 2010. - The House of Stenkil was a dynasty on the Swedish throne from c. 1060 to c. 1125. Stenkil probably originated from Vastergotland. - Thietmar (also Dietmar or Dithmar; 25 July 975 1 December 1018), Prince-Bishop of Merseburg from 1009 until his death, was an important chronicler recording the reigns of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors of the Ottonian (Saxon) dynasty. Two of Thietmar's great-grandfathers, both referred to Liuthar, were the Saxon nobles Lothar II, Count of Stade, and Lothar I, Count of Walbeck. They were both killed fighting the Slavs at the Battle of Lenzen. - Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: "Sveinn Tjuguskegg"; Danish: "Svend Tveskg"; 960 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark, England, and parts of Norway. His name appears as Swegen in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". He was the son of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark, and the father of Cnut the Great. - Ragnvald Ulfsson the Old (beginning 11th century) was a jarl of Vastergotland or Ostergotland, and married to a sister of Olav Tryggvason. - Ynglinga saga is a legendary saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson about 1225. It is the first section of his "Heimskringla". It was first translated into English and published in 1844 by Samuel Laing. - Heimskringla is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/791241) ca. 1230. The name "Heimskringla" was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts ("kringla heimsins" - "the circle of the world"). - Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: "Eirikr inn sigrsli", Modern Swedish: "Erik Segersall") (c. 945? c. 995) was the first Swedish king (c. 970995) about whom anything definite is known. Whether he actually qualifies as King of Sweden has been debated, as his son Olof Skotkonung was the first ruler documented to have been accepted both by the Svear around Lake Malaren and by the Gotar around Lake Vattern. - Gunhilda of Wenden was a semi-legendary Polish or other Slavic princess and Danish Viking age queen consort, the supposed spouse of 10th-century King Sweyn I of Denmark (9861014). - The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220. - Ulf Tostesson was a jarl and the son of the legendary Viking Skogul Toste. He was the brother of Sigrid the Haughty, and his son, Ragnvald Ulfsson, a jarl, was the father of Stenkil, who was elected king when the old House of Munso died out. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'skagul toste' exhibits the relationship of 'date of death'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 1009 - 1014 - 1018 - 1035 - 1050 - 1060 - 1125 - 1178 - 1179 - 1220 - 1225 - 1230 - 1240 - 1241 - 140 - 1799 - 1814 - 1844 - 20 - 23 - 25 - 3 february 1014 - 443 - 454 - 50 - 7 - 930 - 945 - 960 - 970 - 975 - 986 - 995
Answer:
975