Ragnar’s wives and children

Started by Alex Moes on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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9/1/2015 at 6:44 PM

The first paragraph explains that there is disagreement between the sources.

The list that follows is clearly based on Saxo but then includes Aslaug who Saxo doesn't mention.

Kraka features prominently in Saxo's Book 5 as the step-mother of Erik but Erik's mother is Swanloga (meaning Swanloga can't be Aslaug/Kraka) who is the last wife of Ragnar that Saxo mentions prior to Ragnar's death (at least the last in Book 9).

I think the WIVES AND CHILDREN section should be divided up under sub-headings for each source, so the current list would be Saxo's version then another sub-heading for Ragnar's Saga, etc.

9/1/2015 at 11:32 PM

Yep Alex. I am not quit done yet. Just wanted to get it started.
And that was the plan. To take the sources and see who puts what wife and child together!.

9/2/2015 at 12:39 AM

Great minds think alike!

I was initially going to do a quick edit of that paragraph to translate some small words into English but i got bogged down in the detail and then started wondering what basis the list was written on which then led to the above post. I wanted to suggest something constructive rather than just complain :)

9/2/2015 at 1:06 AM

well I think I have espanded the project a little, but by far not done.
Need to read through the sagas a couple of times to make sure I get i get it right.

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12/7/2015 at 3:01 AM

Unless I managed to miss it, I couldn't see this person named as a daughter:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hju2qg16hzma5yj/AAAiwARavVuBalZwQbt4gIeU...
(Åløf Ragnarsdóttir - must have been Icelandic)

- who is supposedly my 33rd great grandmother...

Any ideas? Or are you still in the process of documenting the wives and children from the various sources?

12/7/2015 at 12:07 PM

She is mentioned towards the bottom of the page

"Wives and children as mentioned in Landnámabók:

Un-named mother(s) of Ragnar’s son, Bjørn "Ironside", and daughter, Alof."

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12/10/2015 at 11:48 PM

@Alex (it won't translate your name, sorry):

Thanks for pointing out my blind spot, and I apologise for giving the wrong link before! I must have been tired... :-(

12/11/2015 at 1:20 AM

No worries :)

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