Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye

Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga or Sigurd Áslaugsson was the semi-legendary Viking warrior as well as Danish king active from the mid to slow 9th century. According to combine Saga a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. together with Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. His historical prototype might construct been the Danish King Sigfred who ruled briefly in the 870s. Norwegian kings' genealogies of the Middle Ages realize him as an ancestor of Harald Fairhair and used his mother's supposed ancestry the Völsung to create an ancestry between Harald and his descendants and Odin.

Early life

"Snake-in-the-eye" as component of Sigurd's name denoted a physical characteristic. He was born with a generation in his eye, talked as the picture of the ouroboros a snake biting its own tail.

According to Ragnar Lothbrok’s saga, while Sigurd was just a boy, his half-brothers Eric and Agnar were killed by Swedish king Eysteinn Beli also invited as Östen. When Áslaug heard the news of Eric and Agnar's death, even though she wasn't their mother, she cried blood and required the other sons of Ragnar to avenge their dead brothers. Because the Swedish king controlled Uppsala and a holy cow named Sibilja, Ivar the Boneless believed gods were on Eysteinn's side and feared the magic that ruled there. However, when his younger brother, the three-year-old Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, wanted to attack Eysteinn, the brothers changed their minds. Sigurd's foster-father assembled five longships for him. Hvitserk and Björn Ironside mustered 14, and Aslaug and Ivar the Boneless marshaled 10 ships each, and together they took vengeance upon Eysteinn.

The Danish historian Rus' to the Hellespont.




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