{"id":6172,"date":"2009-01-08T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/01\/08\/the_lay_of_havelok_the_dane\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:13:33","slug":"the_lay_of_havelok_the_dane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/01\/08\/the_lay_of_havelok_the_dane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lay of Havelok the Dane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin-bottom:10px; margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/nigel.portas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/nigel.portas\/seallg.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Seal of Grimsby\" title=\"Seal of Grimsby\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>For those fascinated by old legends<\/strong>, I ran across one I hadn&#8217;t heard of before, in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/medievalnews.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/lay-of-havelok-dane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog post<\/a><\/strong> about a 13th century legend of the founding of the English town of Grimsby.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>It is the story of Grim<\/strong>, from Denmark, who saved the life of the heir to the Danish throne and brought him to England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The heir, Havelock grows up to be the strongest man in England<\/strong> and ends up marrying the daughter of the English King. Later he retakes his throne in Denmark back and he and his wife rule both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway, some see similarities to the legends of King Arthur<\/strong> and the Wikipedia article points to direct connections between the legends, and so I thought I would point the curious to the following sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/medievalnews.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/lay-of-havelok-dane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News for Medievalists Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Havelok_the_Dane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Article on Havelock The Dane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/nigel.portas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grim &amp; Havelock Legend Website (Excellent)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Very interesting info!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Views: 70<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFor those fascinated by old legends, I ran across one I hadn&#8217;t heard of before, in a blog post about&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2009\/01\/08\/the_lay_of_havelok_the_dane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Lay of Havelok the Dane&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,41,52,32,82,92,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-blog-reading","category-king-arthur-related","category-on-celtic-history","category-on-cornwall","category-on-england","category-on-the-web","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1By","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}