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Björn Ironside (Swedish: Björn Järnsida) (Old Norse: Bjǫrn Járnsíða), [a] according to Norse legends, was a Norse Viking chief and Swedish king. According to the 12th- and 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. [ 1 ]
The rarely used name "House of Björn Ironside" (Swedish: Björn Järnsidas ätt) comes from the dynasty supposedly descending from the legendary Viking Björn Ironside according to the later Icelandic sagas. The big burial mound at Munsö was attributed, without evidence, to Björn Ironside by 18th-century historians, an identification that is ...
According to the Knýtlinga saga, Christina was the daughter of Bjørn Haraldsen Ironside, son of the Danish prince Harald Kesja, and his consort, the Swedish princess Katarina Ingesdotter, daughter of King Inge I of Sweden.
Three teenagers were killed and one was critically injured in a fiery crash in northern Alabama early Friday, according to the Hanceville Police Department. 3 teenagers die, 1 critically injured ...
The driver has four prior DUI convictions, according to officials.
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Frank Boykin, represented Mobile in Congress for 28 years; Sanford Bishop, Democratic Party, member of the United States House of Representatives; Mark E. Clayton, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 2012; born in Mobile; Margaret Conditt, Ohio State Representative, a Republican member; born in Mobile; Mike Dow, four-term mayor ...
An Alabama woman died in a tragic accident earlier this month after debris struck her while in the passenger seat of a vehicle traveling on the highway, local media reported.