Ragnvald Olafsson

Ragnvald Olafsson (Norwegian Ragnvald Heidumhære ) was a (legendary) king of Vestfold in the late 9th century in what is now Norway . He was sung about in the Ynglingatal .

Ragnvald is said to have commissioned the skald Þjóðólfr ór Hvini to describe the origins of his family of Nordic deities and the legendary family of the Ynglings .

The Ynglingatal is one of the oldest and most famous poems in Old Norse literature.

family

Ragnvald is said to have been a son of Olaf Geirstad-Alf or Ragnar Lodbrok .

The Heimskringlasaga wrote in the 13th century that he was a cousin of Harald Fairhair . A daughter Åsa Ragnvaldsdatter (Aseda Rognvaldsdatter) was mentioned in a later text. She married Eystein Ivarsson. This was considered an ancestor of Wilhelm the Conqueror .

literature

• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 , pp.?.
• Jan de Vries: Old Norse literary history. de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1999. ISBN 3-11-016330-6 , pp.