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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 ]
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye marries king Ælla's daughter Blaeja and they have a son named Harthacnut, who succeeds his father as the king of Zealand, Scania and Halland, but Viken rebels and breaks loose. Harthacanute has a son named Gorm, who is big and strong but not as wise as his ancestors.
Ragnar later repudiates his marriage to Ladgerda and marries Thora Borgarhjort, a daughter of the Swedish king Herrauðr, after killing two venomous giant snakes that guard Thora's residence. His sons with Thora are Radbard, Dunvat, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Björn Ironside, Agnar and Ivar the Boneless.
Harald Kesja had married to Ragnild Magnusdotter, the daughter of King Magnus III of Norway. They had four or six sons: They had four or six sons: Björn Haraldsen Ironside (d. 1134), married Katarina Ingesdotter , the daughter of Inge I of Sweden . and the father of Christina of Denmark , a Swedish queen.
A Danish Viking king called Sigfred, who appears to have become landless by this time, was killed in West Francia in 887; he is quite possibly the same person. [10] Sigurd married Blaeja, the daughter of king Ælla of Northumbria and they had two children, Harthacanute and Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, who was married to Helge of the Dagling ...
According to this text, Ubba was the son of Ragnar Lodbrok and an unnamed daughter of a certain Hesbernus. [345] Gesta Danorum does not associate Ubba with Anglo-Saxon England in any way. [ 346 ] [ note 40 ] According to the 13th- or 14th-century Ragnarssona þáttr , a source that forms part of the West Scandinavian tradition, Ivar had two ...
Alyssa Sutherland as Princess Aslaug, Brynhildr's daughter and Ragnar's second wife. [2] Donal Logue as King Horik of Denmark, interested in joining Ragnar's raid to England; Linus Roache as King Ecbert of Wessex, the cunning king of Wessex; Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son of Ragnar and Lagertha, in love with the slave Þórunn
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 ...