Olmar

Family: Russians · Role: King · First appears: Book Five · Part 19

In Book Five · Part 19, Hun allied with Olmar and equipped an armament against the Danes. After this, Frode’s Danes defeated Olmar’s forces. In Book Five · Part 21, Olmar conquered Thor the Long, King of the Jemts and the Helsings, and took Esthonia, Kurland, Oland, and the islands off Sweden; Frode then set him over Holmgard.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hun allied with Olmar and equipped an armament against the Danes.(Book Five · Part 19)
  • With: Hun (King of the Huns)
  • “Meanwhile the King of the Huns, when he heard that his daughter had been put away, allied himself with Olmar, King of the Easterlings, and in two years equipped an armament against the Danes.”
• Frode's Danes defeated Olmar's forces.(Book Five · Part 19)
  • With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “After this they went on to meet Olmar, who because of the slowness of his multitude preferred awaiting the enemy to attacking it; for the vessels of the Ruthenians seemed disorganized, and, owing to their size, not so well able to row. But not even did the force of his multitudes avail him. For the extraordinary masses of the Ruthenians were stronger in numbers than in bravery, and yielded the victory to the stout handful of the Danes.”
• Olmar conquered Thor the Long and took several lands and islands.(Book Five · Part 21)
  • With: Thor the Long
  • “But Olmar conquered Thor the Long, the King of the Jemts and the Helsings, with two other captains of no less power, and also took Esthonia and Kurland, with Oland, and the isles that fringe Sweden;”
• Frode set Olmar over Holmgard.(Book Five · Part 21 · 📍 Holmgard)
  • With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “Now he set Olmar over Holmgard;”

Book Five · Part 19

• friends with Hun (King of the Huns) “Meanwhile the King of the Huns, when he heard that his daughter had been put away, allied himself with Olmar, King of the Easterlings, and in two years equipped an armament against the Danes.”
• enemies with Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “After this they went on to meet Olmar, who because of the slowness of his multitude preferred awaiting the enemy to attacking it; for the vessels of the Ruthenians seemed disorganized, and, owing to their size, not so well able to row. But not even did the force of his multitudes avail him.”

Book Five · Part 20

• enemies with Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) (Frode's campaign against the Russian kings.) “By this time all the kings of the Russians except Olmar and Dag had fallen in battle.”

Book Five · Part 21

• lord: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “Now he set Olmar over Holmgard; Onef over Conogard; and he bestowed Saxony on Hun, his prisoner, and gave Revil the Orkneys.”
• enemies with Thor the Long “But Olmar conquered Thor the Long, the King of the Jemts and the Helsings, with two other captains of no less power, and also took Esthonia and Kurland, with Oland, and the isles that fringe Sweden; thus he was a most renowned conqueror of savage lands.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.