Legendary Viking Ancestry and Mythology

Sources: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M728-4H5, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Victorious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_the_Haughty and pages thereof.

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With the exception of Erik the Victorious and the Polish princess Świętoslawa and some of her ancestry, many of these persons are legendary (some purely fictional from mythical sagas) and may or may not represent real persons. Clicking on their names leads to related Wikipedia articles, some of which reveal possible historical bases while some tell the legendary sagas of old. I put this tree here since it represents ancestral culture and heritage.

                   

Odin
(Óδinn, Wóden, Wöden, Wuotan, Wodan, Wotan)

The chief mythical god in Germanic and Norse mythology.
Another line of my genealogy attempts to place Odin as a historial person b. ca. 215, but it, too, is a legendary genealogy. Also see the note below.		                                                                                              
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                Skjödr (Skioldus, Skjold, Skiold, Scyld, Scyld Scefing)
legendary ancestor of the Scyldings in Danish royal lineage. According to myth, he was given Denmark by his father Odin. Also, see the note below.		 |
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    Fróδi (Froda, Frode, Frotho, Frodo), possibly an eonym for Freyr, a legendary figure in Norse mythology including Beowulf and the Latinized form of the name Frodo is used for the protaginist in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Also see the note below.   Svafrlami (Sigriami)
He received the magic sword Tyrfing made by the dwarves Dvalinn and Durin, but was killed by it in a fight with Angrim as the dwarves cursed the blade in that it could not be unsheathed without killing a man. The dwarves are the influence for the dwarves Durin and Dwalin in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.		 |
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NOTE: Some trace their line from Halfdan while also tracing his ancestry involving multiple Frodi, son of Fridleif, ancestors to an alleged historical person named Odin further back than depicted here, but of the same Norse mythology. Halfdan, a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king  
Angrim, a berserker in Norse mythology
Angrim forced Eyfura to marry him after killing her father with the magic sword Tyrfing.
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                    Hrothgar, a Scylding, was a legendary Danish king appearing in Beowulf.   Angantyr from Norse mythology     |
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                    Valdar, the name of one or several legendary Danish kings   Heiδrekr Ulfhamr, a Gothic king     |
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                      Halfdan the Valiant       Sigi (Siggi),
a third son of Odin,
sometimes seen as Sigar Odinsson (b. ca. 625, Norway).		                                                                                              
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                      Ivar Vidfamne Alternative ancestry elsewhere in this genealogy Rerir
(Also seen as Rer Sigarsson, b. ca. 655, Norway)		   Hrímnir, a giant in Norse mythology

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Hyrja		                                                                                          
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According to the legendary account in the Hversu Noregr Byggδist: Ráδbarδr (Rathbarth) (late 7th century) was a legendary king of Garδaríki

According to the legendary account in the Hervarar saga: Valdar, the name of one or several legendary Danish kings

(source)		 m. According to the legendary account in the Hversu Noregr Byggδist: Auδ the Deep-Minded, fugitive Norse queen and mother of Harald Wartooth

According to the legendary account in the Hervarar saga: Alfhild

(source)		       Völsung m.

Alternate detailed genealogy elsewhere in this genealogy		 Hljod
(Ljod, Hijóδ),
a giantess in Norse mythology		                                                                                        
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King Eylimi
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  Randver (Randvér) m. Ingild, the daughter of an unknown Swedish king. Seen elsewhere in this tree Sigmund m. Hjördís (Hiordis) in Norse mythology is the wife of Sigmund, and the mother of Sigurd. (source).                                                                                        
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Buδli (Budli), the name of one or two legendary kings from the Scandinavian Legendary sagas.
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Historical Origins: It has been suggested that a report of a struggle for the Danish crown may have given rise to the legend of Sigurd Hring. Following the death of Hemming in 812, his brother or cousin Sigifrid and Anulo (Latin for Ring, but perhaps originally representing Old Norse Anleifr), nephew of an earlier king Harald, fought a battle for the succession in which both were killed. This struggle appears to be reflected in the legendary Battle of the Brávellir, fought by Sigurd Ring, nephew of Harald Wartooth (source). Sigurd Hring
flourished ca. 750		 m.

Also seen elsewhwere in my tree.		 Alfhild       Sigurd (Sigurδr) is a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictorial form from seven runestones in Sweden and most notably the Ramsund carving (ca. 1000) and the Gök Runestone (11th century).

As Siegfried, he is one of the heroes in the German Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.

As Sivard Snarensven(d) he was the hero of several medieval Scandinavian ballads.

The name Sigurδr is not the same name as the German Siegfried. The Old Norse form of Siegfried would have been Sigfroδr. Sivard is a variant form of Sigurδr. These name forms all share the first element sig-, which means victory.

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Sigurd and Brunhild by Harry George Theaker (1920)		 Brynhildr (also spelled Brunhild, Brünnhilde, Brynhild, Brunhilda) is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Germanic mythology, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events. Under the name Brünnhilde she appears in the Nibelungenlied and therefore also in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. She may be inspired by the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. The history of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battle between brothers, and dealings with the Huns. She is also known as Sigrdrífa, as written in the poem Sigrdrífumál.
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"Brynhild" (1897) by Gaston Bussière
 Also seen elsewhwere in my tree.                                          
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    Candidates for the "historical Ragnar" include:
  • King Horik I (d. 854),
  • King Reginfrid (d. 814),
  • a king who ruled part of Denmark and came into conflict with Harald Klak,
  • one "Reginherus" who attacked Paris in the middle of the ninth century,
  • possibly the Rognvald of the Irish Annals, and
  • the father of the Viking leaders who invaded England with the Great Heathen Army in 865.
(source) 		Ragnar Lodbrok or Lothbrok
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According to legend, Ælla of Northumbria executed Ragnar by throwing him into a pit of snakes and his sons avenged him by invading England with the Great Heathen Army (source).
m. 		Aslaug
a.k.a.
Aslög, Kráka, Kraba or Randalin
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d. 		                            Chościsko, a legendary figure in Polish prehistory                                                          
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    A more detailed and slightly different ancestry of Sigurd "Snake-Eye" Ragnarsson is available at FamilySearch, again of legend.   descendants through son Sigurd "Snake-Eye" Ragnarsson     Björn Ironside
of the House of Munsö
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d. 		                                  Piast the Wheelwright (Piast Kolodzie)

b. 740-741
d. 861
a semi-legendary figure from medieval Poland (9th century A.D.)		 m. Rzepicha (Rzepka)
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d.
According to Gallus Anonymus, she lived in the 9th century.		                                                      
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d. 		                                Siemowit (Ziemowit)
                                                      
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a.k.a.
Anund Uppsale
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Anoundus
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d. 		                                  Lestek (Leszek, Lestko)

b. ca. 870-880
d. 930-940
Proof of his actual existance is unclear, but the tribes that lived in present-day Poland were teh Lestkowici.		 m. Possibly a Moravian or Saxon princess.
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d. 		      possibly Wlodzislaw
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d. 		m. unknown
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                             Erik
who fought Harald Fairhair		                     Siemomysl (Ziemomysl)
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d. ca. 950-960		 m. unknown, but theorized to be a daughter of Wlodzislaw
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d. 		                Historical father:
Mieszko I of Poland

b. ca. 940
d. 25 May 992
His ancestry is listed above.
Legendary father according to saga:
Skagul Toste who has no ancestry listed above		 m. Historical mother: Doubravka (Dobrawa) of Bohemia

b. ca. 940/945
d. 977		      
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        Erik (Eric) the Victorious
(Erik Segersäll)
King of Sweden

b. 945?
d. ca. 995
First Swedish king about whom anything is definite. 		m. Sigrid the Haughty
a.k.a.
Sigríδ Storràda
(above possibly fictional names)
or
Świętoslawa
b.
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While given the Nordic ancestry in sagas, she has been hypothesized to be identical to an historically attested Polish princess, sister of Boleslaw I the Brave -- children of Mieszko I of Poland and Dobrawa of Bohemia (source).		        
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