Swedish king of legend. The stories have him living in the 6th-7th centuries. He belonged to the Yngling Dynasty and at least would have ruled Swealand, that is to say the central Swea Region that subsequently developed into modern Sweden by about 980. His epithet of Harra is thought to have meant Grand or Hairy. Sources such as Snorri Sturluson's Yngling Saga name him as a major warlike Viking chieftain who fought Danes and Estonians that he encountered while he was checking his shores. He eventually made peace with the Danes and controlled the Estonians. On his last expedition to Estonia, however, he was defeated and killed at a location variously called Stein or Eysysla (Saarema of today) and was buried in a tumulus there which has not been found in our time. Archaeology done from 2008 to 2010 in Salme, Estonia, revealed two Viking ships which it has been tempting to associate with this saga. Besides his known son Anwynd he is said to have had another son Seward (Sigurd).
Swedish king of legend. The stories have him living in the 6th-7th centuries. He belonged to the Yngling Dynasty and at least would have ruled Swealand, that is to say the central Swea Region that subsequently developed into modern Sweden by about 980. His epithet of Harra is thought to have meant Grand or Hairy. Sources such as Snorri Sturluson's Yngling Saga name him as a major warlike Viking chieftain who fought Danes and Estonians that he encountered while he was checking his shores. He eventually made peace with the Danes and controlled the Estonians. On his last expedition to Estonia, however, he was defeated and killed at a location variously called Stein or Eysysla (Saarema of today) and was buried in a tumulus there which has not been found in our time. Archaeology done from 2008 to 2010 in Salme, Estonia, revealed two Viking ships which it has been tempting to associate with this saga. Besides his known son Anwynd he is said to have had another son Seward (Sigurd).
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