Princess Gunhild, whose eye disease was cured by Saint Wulfstan, had a younger sister: Gytha

Saxo Grammaticus reports that after Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings, Gytha of Wessex fled to Flanders, then to her uncle, King Sweyn of Denmark, and a few years later married Vladimir Monomakh, Prince of Smolensk.

Gytha bore six sons: Mstislav the Great (Prince of Kyiv), Izyaslav (Prince of Kursk and Murom), Svyatoslav (Prince of Smolensk and Pereyaslavl), Roman (Prince of Volhynia), Yaropolk (Prince of Pereyaslavl and Prince of Kyiv) and Vyacheslav (Prince of Smolensk, Prince of Turov and Prince of Pereyaslavl-South). In the West the eldest son was called Harold, after his grandfather.

There is an opinion that Gytha took part in the First Crusade, died in 1098 and was buried in Palestine.

Report a translation error

September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Princess Gunhild, whose eye disease was cured by Saint Wulfstan, had a younger sister: Gytha

Read more

September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s