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King Of The Geats
Geatish kings (; ), ruling over the provinces of Götaland (Gautland/Geatland), appear in several sources for early Swedish history. Today, most of them are not considered historical. This list follows the generally accepted identification between the names ''Götar'' (Swedish language, modern Swedish), ''Gautar'' (Old Norse) and ''Geatas'' (Old English language, Old English), which is based both on tradition, literary sources and on etymology. However, unlike some translations it does not identify this tribe with the Goths. Both Old Norse and Old English records clearly separate the Geats from the Goths, while still depicting them as closely related to each other. From the Middle Ages until 1974, Monarchy of Sweden, Swedish monarchs claimed the title King of the Geats as "King of Sweden and Geats/Goths" or King of the Goths, "Rex Sweorum et Gothorum". Monarchy of Denmark, Danish monarchs used the similar title "King of the Goths" from 1362 until 1972. Legendary kings Some n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gizur And The Huns
Gizur, Gizurr or Gissur was a King of the Geats. He appears in '' The Battle of the Goths and Huns'', which is included in the '' Hervarar saga'' and in editions of the ''Poetic Edda''. Gizur was the foster-father of Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the Goths (see Oium and the Chernyakhov culture). Following the death of Heidrek by the hand of his slaves, his son Angantyr, who was the new king of the Goths, avenged him and held a great banquet in his memory. The aged Gizur, Heidrek's foster father, was among the kings who arrived at the Goth capital Arheimar on the Dniepr (''Danpar'') and participated in the banquet. Then Heidrek's illegitimate son Hlöd, who had been raised by his maternal grandfather Humli and had grown up among the Huns, conspired with his grandfather to claim his share of the inheritance, which included half of all Heidrek's property. Angantyr offered a great many riches and a third of the Goth kingdom, but before Hlöd could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gestiblindus
''Gestumblindi'' is a personal name appearing in two medieval Scandinavian legendary texts: ''Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks'' and (in the Latinised form as ''Gestiblindus'') in Saxo Grammaticus' ''Gesta Danorum''. A figure of this name also appears in several later Scandinavian folk tales as Gest Blinde. Etymology Although generally attested in medieval sources as one word, the name ''Gestumblindi'' in rendered in the U-recension of ''Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks'' as , which means both 'Gestr the Blind' and 'the blind guest'. It is thought that the transparently meaningful is the origin of the name ''Gestumblindi''.Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks''', ed. by Hannah Burrows, in ''Poetry in 'Fornaldarsögur': Part 1'', ed. by Margaret Clunies Ross, Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, 8 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 367–487. The adoption of the name by Óðinn in ''Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks'' is unlikely to be coincidental: 'since the one-eyed Óðinn is celebrated elsewhere no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrólfr Gautreksson
Hrólfr Gautreksson was a legendary Geatish king who appears in '' Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar'' and probably in ''Hyndluljóð''. ''Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar'' tells that he was the son of king Gautrek and when his father died, his elder brother Ketill became king. Hrólfr would court and finally win the Swedish king Erik's daughter Þornbjörg, who was a violent and proud ruler. He later succeeded his brother as king. There is also an isolated stanza in ''Hyndluljóð'' where Hrólfr the Old appears. The names Þorir the Iron-Shield and GrÃmr shows that the lines probably refer to Þorir and GrÃmr Þorkelsson who appear with Hrólfr in ''Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar''. Translations: ''Hrolf Gautreksson, a Viking romance''. Translated by Hermann Pálsson, Paul Geoffrey Edwards. University of Toronto Press, 1972. 148 pages. Primary sources *'' Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar'' *Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar' *Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar Ed. Guðni Jónsson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson' *' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrólfs Saga Gautrekssonar
''Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar'' is a Scandinavian legendary saga which was put to text in Iceland in the 13th century. It has a prequel in ''Gautreks saga''. Summary Gautrekr was a Geatish king who descended from Odin himself. He lost his wife Alfhild and went somewhat out of his mind, ignored all matters of state, and spent all his time on Alfhild's burial mound, flying his hawk. He had two sons Ketill and Hrólfr Gautreksson, and Ketill became a great Viking who inherited his father's kingdom. In Uppsala ruled Erik, the king of Sweden, who had only had one child, Þornbjörg, born a daughter. She was a ruler who would rather fight and act manly - to Erik's disdain. She also called herself by the masculine-associated name Þórbergr, and insisted on not being referred to as a virgin or as womanly. She is called a few times throughout the saga ''Þórbergr konungr'', king Thorberg. Throughout the saga it does keep referring to her as female and as queen, however. Þorbjörg's fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautrekr
Gautrekr was a legendary Geatish king who appears in several sources, such as ''Gautreks saga'', '' Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar'', ''Bósa saga ok Herrauðs'', ''Ynglinga saga'', ''Nafnaþulur'' (part of the ''Prose Edda'') and '' Af Upplendinga konungum''. He appears in different temporal settings, and he could represent different kings named Gautrekr, as the name simply means "Geatish ruler". In the various settings, he also has different offspring. However, all settings present him as the son of a Gaut or Gauti, and in one of the later settings, his father Gaut gave his name to Götaland (Geatland). In ''Nafnaþulur'', he is mentioned as one of the sea-kings, after his father Gauti. Early setting In the early setting, Gautrekr is the contemporary of legendary characters such as Starkad and the Swedish kings Erik and Alrik. ''Gautreks saga'' tells that Gautrekr was born out of the meeting between Gauti, the king of Västergötland, and Snotra who was the most intelligent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herrauðr
Herrauðr, ''Herraud'', ''Herröðr'', ''Herruðr'', ''Herrud'', ''Herothus'' or ''Heroth'' is a legendary 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'', ''Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok'', ''Krákumál'' and ''Gesta Danorum'', book 9). He also has a saga of his own in ''Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, Bósi and Herrauðr's saga''. His main role in the sagas is as the father of Þóra Borgarhjǫrtr who gave his daughter one or two small lindworms which grew so big that he had to promise her to the man who could slay the serpent(s). Ragnar Lodbrok took on himself to liberate the girl and became her husband. ''Bósi and Herrauðr's saga'' works as a prequel describing the origin of the lindworm. In ''Krákumál'', the dying Ragnar Lodbrok sings that a more famous earl than Herröðr had never steered his longship into a harbou ''Bósi and Herrauðr's saga'' ''Bósi and Herrauðr's saga'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Östergötland
Östergötland (; English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, the Latinized version ''Ostrogothia'' is also used. The corresponding administrative county, Östergötland County, covers the entire province and parts of neighbouring provinces. Heraldry From 1560, Östergötland was represented with two separate coats-of-arms seals until 1884, when the current one was granted. The coat of arms is represented with a ducal coronet. Blazon: " gules a griffin with dragon wings, tail and tongue rampant or armed, beaked, langued and membered azure between four roses argent." Geography From west to east, in the middle parts, extends the Östgöta Plain (''Östgötaslätten''). It is largely agricultural. In the southern part of the province, the terrain becomes marked by the south Swedish hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Odin
Various gods and men appear as sons of Odin (, ) in Old Norse and Old English texts. Thor, Baldr, VÃðarr and Váli Four gods, Thor, Baldr, VÃðarr and Váli, are explicitly identified as sons of Odin in the Eddic poems, in the skaldic poems, in Saxo Grammaticus' '' Gesta Danorum'', and in the '' Gylfaginning'' section of Snorri Sturluson's '' Prose Edda''. But silence on the matter does not indicate that other gods whose parentage is not mentioned in these works might not also be sons of Odin. Other gods called sons of Odin by Snorri Sturluson In various kennings recorded in the '' Skáldskaparmál'' section of the ''Prose Edda'', Snorri also describes Heimdallr, Bragi, Týr, Höðr, and Hermóðr as sons of Odin, information that appears nowhere else outside ''Skáldskaparmál''. # For Heimdall, there is no variant account of his father. # The same may not be true for Bragi if Bragi is taken to be the skaldic poet Bragi Boddason made into a god. # But Týr, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ynglinga Saga
''Ynglinga saga'' ( ) is a Kings' sagas, Kings' saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelanders, Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson about 1225. It is the first section of his ''Heimskringla''. It was first translated into English and published in 1844 by Samuel Laing (travel writer), Samuel Laing. Snorri Sturluson based his work on an earlier ''Ynglingatal'' which is attributed to the Norwegian 9th-century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, and which also appears in ''Historia Norvegiæ, Historia Norwegiae''. It tells the most ancient part of the story of the House of Ynglings (''Scylfings'' in ''Beowulf''). Snorri described the descent of the kings of Norway from this List of Swedish monarchs, royal house of Sweden. ''Ynglinga saga'' is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the ''Heimskringla.'' Interwoven in this narrative are references to important historical events. The saga deals with the arrival of the Norse gods to Scandinavia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauti
is an early Germanic name, from a Proto-Germanic ''gautaz'', which represents a mythical ancestor or national god in the origin myth of the Geats. Etymology ''Gautaz'' may be connected to the name of the Swedish river Göta älv at the city of Gothenburg. The Geatish ethnonym *gautaz is related to the ethnonym of the Goths and of the Gutes (inhabitants of the island of Gotland), deriving from Proto-Germanic *gutô (cf. Gothic ''Gut-þiuda'', Old Norse ''gotar'' or ''gutar''). Tribal name Early inhabitants of present-day Götaland called themselves Geats (in Swedish ''Götar''), derived from *''Gautaz'' (plural *''Gautôz''), "to pour". Accounts The German chronicler Johannes Aventinus (ca. 1525) reported Gothus as one of 20 dukes who accompanied Tuisto into Europe, settling Gothaland as his personal fief, during the reign of Nimrod at Babel. The Swede Johannes Magnus around the same time as Aventinus, wrote that Gothus or Gethar, also known as Gogus or Gog, was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
