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- ↑ Sawyer, P. (2002). Da Danmark blev Danmark: fra ca. 700 til 1050. Gyldendal og Politikens Danmarkshistorie (in Danish). Gyldendal. p. 218. ISBN 978-87-89068-23-7 . Retrieved 6 July 2018.
Derfor har man hævdet, at Gnupa tilhørte et svensk dynasti; men Asfrid rejste en anden sten i Hedeby til minde om Sigtryg, ... Olaf "fra Sverige" og hans søn Gnupa Man ved ikke mere om Helge, Olaf og Gurd end Adam fortæller, men Gnupa ...
- ↑ Adam av Bremen (1984), Historien om Hamburgstiftet och dess biskopar. Stockholm: Proprius, p. 52-3 (Book I, Chapter 48). In another passage (Book I, Chapter 52), Adam says that Olof ruled Denmark with his sons.
- ↑ In one opinion the year 934 is too late and Gnupa was dead by c. 917; see Bent Østergaard (1994), "Sven Estridsens danmarkshistorie. Danmarks politiske historie ca. 890-965", Jyske samlinger
- ↑ Erik Moltke (1986), "Det svenske Hedebyrige og Danmarks samling", Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie 1985, p. 16-28.
- ↑ Heiko Steuer (1984), "Zur ethnischen Gliederung der Bevölkerung von Haithabu anhand der Gräberfelder", p. 209
- ↑ Niels Lund (1982), "Svenskevældet i Hedeby", Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie 1980, p. 114-25.
- ↑ Bent Østergaard (1994), "Sven Estridsens danmarkshistorie. Danmarks politiske historie ca. 890-965", Jyske samlinger
- ↑ Saxo Grammaticus, Danmarks kronike, Book 8 ;