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An 1857 painting by August Malmström depicting King Ælla's messenger before Ragnar Lodbrok's sons. The Tale of Ragnar's sons (Old Norse: Ragnarssona þáttr) is an Old Norse story about Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons.
Ragnar receives Kráka (Aslaug), as imagined by August Malmström. 19th-century artist's impression of Ælla of Northumbria's execution of Ragnar Lodbrok. Whereas Ragnar's sons Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Björn Ironside, Ubba and Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye are historical figures, opinion regarding their father is divided.
According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. [1] His historical prototype might have been the Danish King Sigfred who ruled briefly in the 870s. [2]
Ragnarr Loðbrók is a great warrior, son of the Danish king Sigurðr hringr Randvérsson. Ragnarr's first achievement is bravely killing the serpent guarding the beautiful Þóra borgarhjǫrtr. In order to win this battle, Ragnarr wears wolfskin trousers which he has boiled in pitch, hence his name: Old Norse : loðbrók ("hairy trousers").
The story of Björn and his brothers, the sons of the Scandinavian king Ragnar Lodbrok, was retold in different versions throughout the Middle Ages. The Tale of Ragnar's Sons ( Ragnarssona þáttr ) is an Icelandic Fornaldar Saga from about the 14th century that combines traditional Norse oral history with legendary themes.
The Tale of Ragnar's Sons, [6] on the other hand, mentions that the invasion of England by the Great Heathen Army was aimed at avenging the death of Ragnar Lodbrok, a legendary Viking ruler of Sweden and Denmark. [d] In the Viking saga, Ragnar is said to have conducted a raid on Northumbria during the reign of King Ælla. The Vikings were ...
Halfdan was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army which invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia in 865. [2] [3] According to the Norse sagas this invasion was organised by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok (Halfdan being one of them), to wreak revenge against Ælla of Northumbria.
According to this text, Ubba was the son of Ragnar Lodbrok and an unnamed daughter of a certain Hesbernus. [345] Gesta Danorum does not associate Ubba with Anglo-Saxon England in any way. [ 346 ] [ note 40 ] According to the 13th- or 14th-century Ragnarssona þáttr , a source that forms part of the West Scandinavian tradition, Ivar had two ...