Sumble

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Sumble's daughter Signe is stolen by grief from the drunken Finns (illustration by FW Heine , 1921)

Sumble (also Sunmble , Sumle , Sumli or Sumbli ) was a legendary king of the Finns who lived sometime between the years 100 and 400 CE . Z. should have ruled.

Sumble was passed down (in the Latin form Sumblus ) mainly in Saxo Grammaticus ' (Danish) imperial chronicle Gesta Danorum . Both the Danish king Gram (son of Skjöld ) and the Saxon king Heinrich are said to have courted Sumble's daughter Signe (Signy) . First of all, Gram, who landed on the Finnish coast with his fleet and army, forced the King of Finland to promise him Signe. When Gram had to turn back because of a war against Norwegians and Swedes , Sumble broke the forced promise and instead gave Signe to Heinrich as his wife (according to other sources, a Saxon duke named Sigward). Gram appeared at the wedding, killed Heinrich and took Signe to Denmark , where she gave birth to a son named Hading.

The country name Suomi (Finland) or the popular name Suomalaiset (Finns) is said to be derived from Sumble . Finnish lore, however, does not mention a king of that name. According to the Danish-American writer Poul Anderson , Sumble is said to have been a (North Germanic) Viking who ruled over some Finns. In some traditions Sumble or his entourage are portrayed as drunkards, which the Swedish cultural historian Viktor Rydberg associated with the old Germanic drinking bout of Sumbel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c sagazorm.net: Finnish Kings - Sumble
  2. ↑ Genealogy Online: Sunmble - Koning van Finland
  3. ^ Wilhelm Wägner : Unser Vorzeit , Volume 1 (Germanic legends of the gods), page 259ff. Neufeld and Henius Verlag, Berlin 1922
  4. ^ Poul Anderson : War of Gods , p . X. Hachette, 2011

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