The Vikings
The Danes trace their origins back to the northern Germanic tribes who arrived in Denmark from southern Sweden in around 500 AD, part of a group of peoples who became collectively known as the Vikings . The Vikings were seamen, warriors and peasants, and they quickly became notorious for their opportunistic raids on surrounding countries - at their peak they travelled as far as North America and the Caspian Sea. The first Danish state , established by the Viking Gotfred, King of Jutland, emerged some time around 800 AD, based in - and encompassing most of - the Jutland peninsula. A century later, the Norwegian chieftain Hardegon conquered the peninsula and began to expand eastwards over the rest of Denmark, establishing the foundations of the modern Danish nation, the oldest in Europe - the present Danish monarchy can be traced back to his son, Gorm the Old. Shortly afterwards, Christianity became the national religion. Benedictine monks had started arriving in Denmark in 826, but it wasn't until 961 that Gorm the Old's son, Harald Bluetooth, made Christianity Denmark's state religion - even if his reasons for doing so (to make peace with the Franks to the south) were not entirely spiritual. During the late tenth century Danish power expanded: in 1016, Knud (Canute) the Great became King of England, and by 1033 the Danes controlled most of southern Sweden, the whole of England and Normandy, and dominated trade in the Baltic. From this period dates the first historical record of the small fishing village of Havn (literally "Haven" or "Harbour"), which would later develop into the city of Copenhagen - mentioned for the first time in 1043, when the Norwegian King Magnus sought refuge in it after losing a sea battle in the Oresund.
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