Tale of Ragnarr loðbrók (Old Norse: Ragnars saga loðbrókar) is an Icelandic legendary saga of the 13th century about the Viking ruler Ragnarr loðbrók...
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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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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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Ivar the Boneless (category Monarchs of Jorvik)
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, Halvdan...
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Herrauðr (category Kings of the Geats)
earl of Götaland or king of Sweden, who appears in several medieval legends, in particular those relating to Ragnar Lodbrok (e.g. Tale of Ragnar's Sons...
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Aslaug (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
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 and the...
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histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. His historical prototype might have been...
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Þóra borgarhjǫrtr (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
sagas – the wife of Ragnar Loðbrók, who kills a serpent to win her hand in marriage. Thora was the daughter of Herrauðr, the Earl of Götaland. According...
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Björn Ironside (redirect from Barrow of Björn Ironside)
son of notorious Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok and lived in the 9th century, between 855 and 858. Björn Ironside is said to have been the first ruler of the...
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Lagertha (category Ragnar Lodbrok)
shield-maiden 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...
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Hvitserk (category House of Munsö)
was one of the sons of the legendary 9th-century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug. Hvitserk is attested to by the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona...
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uncertain. According to the Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok saga, Sigurd Hring was the father of the legendary Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok. Modern scholarship is in...
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Blood eagle (category European instruments of torture)
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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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)
inspired by the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, a Viking who is one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of Anglo-Saxon England...
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Ubba (category Year of birth unknown)
legend of Ragnar Lodbrok the motif of personal revenge plays a prominent role in the tale of Havelok, with revenge used to justify Danish invasions of England...
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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, Gorm. It has been...
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Great Heathen Army (category Kingdom of East Anglia)
three of the five sons of the semi-legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, including Halfdan Ragnarsson, Ivar the Boneless and Ubba. The campaign of invasion and conquest...
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Legendary saga (redirect from List of Legendary sagas)
existed as the source of Ormars rímur. Örvar-Odds saga (two versions) Ragnars saga loðbrókar (two versions) - Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok a legendary Viking...
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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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The Vikings (film) (category Cultural depictions of Ragnar Lodbrok)
Edison Marshall, which in turn is based on material from the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. Other starring roles were taken by then husband-and-wife...
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"snake pits" are places of horror, torture and death in European legends and fairy tales. The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown...
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Sweden Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons, Hvitserk, Björn Ironside, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Ivar the Boneless, and Ubbe. According to the stories, Ragnar was...
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Bósa saga ok Herrauðs (redirect from The curse of busla)
hand in marriage. The eventual slayer and husband is the famous Ragnar Lódbrok. The tale explains at the end that this serpent had sprung from the vulture's...
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scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts...
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Eddica minora (section List of poems)
Hálfssaga (from the Saga of Half and His Heroes) Die Strophen des Trémaðr aus der Ragnarssaga (from the Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok) Besprechung eines Trolls...
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Helge (Danish king) (category 9th-century monarchs of Denmark)
the Tale of Ragnar's sons, one of the kings killed in 891 was a son of the Viking ruler Ragnar Lodbrok, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, thus Sigfred of the older...
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son-in-law of Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye (one of Ragnar Lodbrok's sons) and Blaeja, the daughter of king Aelle II of Northumbria. "Sigurd Hjort was the name of a...
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Germanic dragon (section List of Germanic dragons)
tail. The image of an encircled snake eating its own tail is also seen with Jörmungandr. The hero Ragnar Lodbrok later wins the hand of Thóra and the treasure...
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is slain by Ragnar Lodbrok who marries Þóra. Ragnar later has a son with another woman named Kráka and this son is born with the image of a white snake...
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