Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called ''Gyritha''Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition)
(p. 104 in the original edition from 1603) or perhaps ''Gunnhild'' (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King

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Biography

In the sagas, Gyrid was the daughter of King

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of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter. According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to

in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (''Tyri Haraldsdatter''), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth. After the death of King Harald (around 985), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid. The Danish historians

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(1603) and

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(1772)Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29 record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wives of Harald Bluetooth - the other being ''Thora'' ( Tófa ?).

Sagas

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa ''Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa'' (''The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion'') is a short story, a ''þáttr'' on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the '' Flatey Book'' (GKS 1005 fol 342-344, ca 1387- ...

Eyrbyggja saga ''Eyrbyggja saga'' (; ) is one of the Icelanders' sagas; its title can be translated as ''The Saga of the People of Eyri.'' It was written by an anonymous writer, who describes a long-standing feud between Snorri Goði and Arnkel Goði, two stron ...

* Hervarar saga *

Knýtlinga saga ''Knýtlinga saga'' () is an Icelandic kings' saga written in the 1250s, which deals with the kings who ruled Denmark from the early 10th century to the time when the book was written. There are good reasons to assume that the author was Óláfr ...

Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th-century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian"). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essentia ...

References

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