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| Notes for Ragnar/Regner "Lodbrok of Uppsala" "Hairy Breeches" SIGURDSSON "King of Denmark" |
[GREATx39 GRANDFATHER]+ [A] [K]
Ragnar Lodbrok ("Hairy-Breeches") was a semi-legendary king of Sweden and Denmark who reigned sometime in the eighth or ninth centuries. According to the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Ragnar belonged to the Swedish Yngling Dynasty. Both Saxo and Icelandic sources describe him as the son of Sigurd Ring, a king of Sweden who conquered Denmark, but they are divided on whether Ragnar mainly resided in Sweden or in Denmark.
Although he is something of a hero in his native Scandinavia, reliable accounts of his life are very sketchy and heavily based on ancient Viking sagas. Even the dating of his reign is not certain; there are sources that date it from 750–794, and others from 860–865. Neither matches with what we know of him, and he probably held power as a warlord from approximately 835 to his death in 865, perhaps only being recognized as king in the last five years of his life. - [4]
[1] - http://www.whosyomama.com
[2] - http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per07318.htm
[3] - http://www.look.no/anita/slekt/webcards/ps34/ps34_272.htm
[4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok |
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