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Hansen, Frederik Carl Christian (1870 - 1934)
DE ÆLDSTE KONGEGRAVE OG BISPEGRAVE I ROSKILDE DOMKIRKE : ANTHROPOLOGISKE-HISTORISKE UNDERSØGELSER OVER SVEN ESTRIDSØN OG HANS MODER ESTRID, BISKOP VILHELM OG BISKOP ASSER AF ROSKILDE MED ANATOMISK REKONSTRUKTION AF ANSIGTSPROFILERNE AF DISSE FIRE PERSONER SAMT AF DRONNING SOPHIE OG DRONNING BERENGARIA. VALDEMAR I'S SYGDOM OG DØD.
Kjøbenhavn, V. Priors Kgl. Hofboghandel, 1914.
41 by 31 cm. 86 pp. + 6 photo gravure plates, each with protective tissues. 28 text illustrations.

Entirely uncut, original printed wrappers.
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$ 150

First edition. A report of the 1911 exhumation at Roskilde Cathedral of the remains Svend Estridsen [c. 1020-1074], King of Denmark, his mother, and others, together with a facial reconstruction. Svend is considered to be Denmark's last Viking king as well as the first medieval one. His skeleton shows him to have been a tall man who walked with a limp. He seems to have been able to read and write, and he is the source of much of our current knowledge about Denmark and Sweden in the 9th and 10th centuries, having told the story of his ancestry to historian Adam of Bremen around 1070.

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