DOINGS OF PAH. V.I H'S SONS 



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"From Sigurd Snake-eye there descended a great family : 

 his daughter was Aslaug. mother of Sigurd Hart, who was 

 father of Ragnhild, mother of Harald Fairhair, who first ruled ;ill 

 Norway alone. Ivar ruled England till his death from disease. 

 When on his death-bed he told them to carry him to a certain 

 spot exposed to attacks, and said he was confident that those 

 who landed there would not obtain a victory. When he died 

 they did as he said, and he was buried in a mound. It is told 

 by many that when Harald Sigurdsson came to England he 

 landed where Ivar was, and he was slain in that expedition. 

 When Vilhjalm bastard (William the Conqueror) came ashore, 

 he went there and broke Ivar's mound, and saw that his body 

 had not decayed. Then he had a large pyre made and Ivar 

 burned on it, Thereupon he landed and got the victory. Bjorn 

 Ironside had many descendants, among them Thord, a great 

 chief who lived at Hofdi in Hofdastrond (Iceland) " (Ragnar 

 Lodbrok's Saga, cc. 10-19). 



After the battle just mentioned on the preceding pages \vr 

 have an account of the doings of Ragnar Lodbrok's sons ; and 

 here again we are reminded that their kinsmen owned part of 

 England before them. 



" After this battle Ivar l became king over the part of Eng- 

 land which his kinsmen had owned before. He had two 

 brothers born of a concubine, Yngvar and Husto ; they tor- 

 tured King Jatmund the holy at Ivar's bidding, and thru 

 conquered his realm. The sons of Ragnar made war in main- 

 landsin England, Valland, Frakkland, and Lumbardi. It 

 is told that they came furthest when they took the burg called 

 Luna, and secretly intended to go to Rome and take it ; their 

 expeditions were the most famous throughout all the Northern 

 lands of the Danish tongue. When they came back to 

 Denmark they divided the lands. Bjorn Ironside got Uppsalir, 

 the whole of Sweden, and what belonged to it. Sigurd 

 Snake-eye 2 got Selund (Zeeland), Skani, Halland, the whole 

 of Vik (Christianiafjord), Agdir to Lidandisness, and a great 

 part of Upplond ; but Hvitserk got Reidgotaland and Vind 

 land " (Ragnar's Sons' Saga, c. 3). 



1 Ivar, who, according to the Sagas, did of Lodbr6k who fought in England other 



great things in England, is no doubt the than "Ivar," Ingvar and Ivar must be 



same man who is called in the chronicles one and the same person. 

 Ingvr, Lodbr6k's son, who in 870 killed 2 Sigurd Snake-eye was married to 



King Eadmund the Holy. Bloeja, daughter of King Ella ; their son 



The English writers mention Ingvar was Knut, or Horda-Knut, who ao|mivd 



and Ubbi, the sons of Lodbr6k, as having the realm after his father, and Selund, 



taken a leading part in killing the king; Skani, and Halland. 

 and as the Sagas don't speak of any son 



