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- Godlib History:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Годлиб_(князь_ободритов)
Godlib (Godolyub, Godeleib, Godlaw, killed in 808) is one of the specific princes of the Union of Obodrites. Brother of the Grand Dukes of the Union of Obodrites - Thrascon and Slavomir.
His name in comes from the Lower German Godleifr. It was suggested that the name could be just a form of the Slavic name Boguslav.
In 808, after the death of Trascon, he was captured and hanged by the army of Goodfred, ruler of southern Denmark, who attacked the Obodrite tribal alliance and seized part of their lands, including the settlement of Roerik (there is information that the Danes called Veligrad so). It is impossible to say abolutically clear whether he could ever succeed Trascon as Grand Duke, or would continue to lead only some part of the tribal union.
According to F. Wigger, Danish and English sources also called Godlib Prince of the Varyags.
Writer Marmier published a legend about Godlib's sons in 1857:
Another tradition of Mecklenburg deserves mention, as it is related to the history of the great power. In the 8th century AD, the Obodrite tribe was ruled by a king named Godlaw, the father of three young men who are equally strong, brave and thirsty for glory. The first was called Rurik, the second was called Sivar, the third Truvar. The three brothers, having no opportunity to test their courage in their father's peaceful kingdom, decided to go in search of battles and adventures in other lands. ... After many good deeds and terrible battles, the brothers, whom they admired and blessed, came to Russia. The people of this country suffered under the burden of long tyranny, against which no one else dared to rebel. Three brothers, touched by his misfortune, woke up his lulled courage, gathered an army, led him and overthrew the power of the oppressors. Having restored peace and order in the country, the brothers decided to return to their old father, but the grateful people begged them not to leave and take the place of the former kings. Then Rurik received the Novgorod Principality, Sivar Pskov, Truvar Beloozerskoe. After a while, as the younger brothers died without leaving children, Rurik annexed their principalities to his own and became the head of the dynasty that reigned until 1598.
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UNKNOWN - 808
