Ragnar Lodbrok ("Ragnar hairy-breeches") (Old Norse: Ragnarr loðbrók), according to legends, was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king. He is known...
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Ragnarr Loðbrók (Old Norse: Ragnars saga loðbrókar) is an Icelandic legendary saga of the 13th century about the Viking ruler Ragnarr loðbrók. It is first...
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Tale of Ragnar's sons (Old Norse: Ragnarssona þáttr) is an Old Norse story about Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. When Sigurd Ring dies, Ragnar Lodbrok succeeds...
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13th-century Scandinavian histories, he was the son of notorious Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok and lived in the 9th century AD, attested in 855 and 858. Björn Ironside...
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on Ragnar Lodbrok, a 9th-century Viking farmer and warrior who raided Anglo-Saxon villages in England. Throughout the first four seasons, Ragnar goes...
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af Ragnars sonum (the "Tale of Ragnar's sons"), Ivar the Boneless has captured king Ælla of Northumbria, who had killed Ivar's father Ragnar Loðbrók. The...
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of the Norse Viking hero and legendary king of Denmark and Sweden, Ragnar Lodbrok. According to Bósa saga ok Herrauds, there was once a saga on Sigurd...
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12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. His historical prototype might have been the Danish King...
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and Ireland. According to the Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, he was the son of Aslaug and her husband Ragnar Loðbrok, and was the brother of Björn Ironside...
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Harald Fairhair (section Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok)
repeats the story of Harald Fairhair's ancestry as told in Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, and elaborates back to Sigurd Fafnisbani and Odin through Aslaug. In...
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Herrauðr (section Tale of Ragnar's sons)
legends, in particular those relating to Ragnar Lodbrok (e.g. Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Krákumál and Gesta Danorum, book 9). He also...
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Aslaug (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
Völsunga saga and in the saga of Ragnar Lodbrok as one of his wives. According to the 13th-century Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Aslaug was the daughter of Sigurd...
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Ubba (section Medieval legend of Ragnar Lodbrok)
Ragnar Lodbrok may have originated in attempts to explain why they came to settle. Ubba is largely non-existent in the Icelandic traditions of Ragnar...
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Eysteinn Beli (section Ragnar Lodbrok's saga)
Uppsala. The apparently oldest version, Ragnarssona þáttr, relates that Ragnar Lodbrok's sons had left Sweden and conquered Zealand, Reidgotaland (here Jutland)...
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The force was led by three of the five sons of the semi-legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, including Halfdan Ragnarsson, Ivar the Boneless and Ubba. The campaign...
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the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug. Hvitserk is attested to by the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona þáttr). He is not...
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Lagertha (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century. According...
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Þóra borgarhjǫrtr (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
Town-Hart"), is a mythical character in the Norse sagas – the wife of Ragnar Loðbrók, who kills a serpent to win her hand in marriage. Thora was the daughter...
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king Ragnar Lodbrok and put him to death in a pit of snakes. The historical invasion of Northumbria in 866 occurred in retaliation for Ragnar's execution...
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Vikings (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Ragnar Lodbrok)
premiered on Netflix on February 25, 2022. It is inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, a Viking who is one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious...
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explored during The Middle Ages." He played a character loosely based on Ragnar Loðbrók, the legendary Viking leader who is frustrated by the unadventurous...
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Travis Fimmel and based on Ragnar Lodbrok Ragnar Danneskjöld, character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957) Ragnar McRyan, character from the role-playing...
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Siege of Paris (845) (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
chieftain named "Reginherus", or Ragnar, who tentatively has been identified with the legendary saga character Ragnar Lodbrok. Reginherus's fleet of 120 Viking...
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tradition claims this Halfdan as a son of the earlier viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok. It might be significant that the Halfdan who was in England may have...
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Langfeðgatal presents the following line of kings: Ragnar Lodbrok (Old Norse: Ragnarr Loðbrók; Swedish: Ragnar Lodbrok) – earliest king mentioned in Langfeðgatal...
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chieftain Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, himself one of the sons of the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok. The saga in turn makes Harthacnut the father of the historical king...
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kingdoms of England starting in 865. Halfdan was one of six sons of Ragnar Lodbrok named in Norse sagas; his brothers and half-brothers included Björn...
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and bites itself in the tail. The serpent is slain by Ragnar Lodbrok who marries Þóra. Ragnar later has a son with another woman named Kráka and this...
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Krákumál (category Cultural depictions of Ragnar Lodbrok)
Lay of Kraka is a skaldic poem, consisting of a monologue in which Ragnar Lodbrok is dying in Ælla's snake pit and looks back at a life full of heroic...
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Roskildense and Ragnarssona þáttr. Son of Ragnar Lodbrok. Halfdan Ragnarsson (c. 871 – 877), son of Ragnar Lodbrok and older brother of Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye...
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