Henry of Livonia in his chronicle called the town with the name that is also known to have been used up to the 13th century by Scandinavians: ''Lindanisa'' (or ''Lyndanisse'' in Danish, ''Lindanäs'' in Swedish and ''Ledenets'' in Old East Slavic). The Icelandic ''Njal's saga'' mentions an event that took place somewhere in the area of Tallinn and calls the place ''Rafala'', which was probably a derivation of ''Rävala'', ''Revala'', or some other variant of the Estonian name of the adjacent Ancient Estonian county. After the Danish conquest in 1219, the town became known in the Danish, Swedish and German languages as '''Reval''' (). ''Reval'' was in official use in Estonia until 1918.