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Sigrid the Haughty (Old Norse:Sigríðr (hin) stórráða), also known as Sigrid Storråda (), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas.Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events the stories describe, but there is no reliable, historical evidence attesting to the veracity of her depiction in those tales.
The Icelandic sagas identify the queen of these two monarchs in turn as Sigrid the Haughty, daughter of Skagul Toste. This account is considered less reliable than the contemporary chroniclers by a number of scholars, according to Birgitta Fritz in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, [1] and the historical authenticity of Sigrid is viewed skeptically.
Sigrid Augusta Green (1920–2012), was a British code breaker, Norwegian resistance member [2] Sigrid Gurie, Norwegian-American actress; Sigrid Grajek (1963), German actor and cabaret actress. Sigrid the Haughty, Swedish, possibly Slavic, queen of Sweden, Denmark, and England; Sigrid Helliesen Lund (1892–1987), Norwegian peace activist
Sigrid Storråda [legendary] [2] [3] [4] Skagul Toste: Den Store Danske Encyklopædi identifies the consort of Sweyn I as Gunhild, and considers the Sigrid the Haughty of the sagas to be based on her, but predominantly a work of "complete fiction". Source: Den Store Danske Encyklopædi, CD-ROM edition, entries Gunhild and Sigrid Storråde ...
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Den Store Danske Encyklopædi identifies the consort of Sweyn I as Gunhild, and considers the Sigrid the Haughty of the sagas to be based on her, but predominantly a work of "complete fiction". She subsequently married Sweyn II, who later divorced her on orders from the church, since both of them were grandchildren of the Slavic consort of Eric ...
The Massachusetts mom charged with strangling her three kids with exercise bands will undergo a psychiatric exam after her lawyers said they are preparing to mount an insanity defense.. Plymouth ...
According to the Dictionary of the Scots Language, a modern compilation of Scots words past and present, hurkle-durkle means “to lie in bed or to lounge after it’s time to get up or go to work.”