Figure Norse and Germanic
Ragnar Lodbrok
Legendary king of Denmark and Sweden
- Child of Sigurd Hring and Álfhildr Gandálfsdóttir of Álfheimr
- Married to Lathgertha, Thora Borgarhjört, Aslaug and 1 more
- Dated 9th century CE – c. 9th century CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- Dates unrecorded king
Family
The family of Ragnar Lodbrok
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 16
Kinship in an account 3
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 13
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Álfhildr Gandálfsdóttir of Álfheimr
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child of (child) Sigurd Hring King of the Swedes and Denmark - parent of (father) Björn Ironside legendary king of Sweden
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parent of (father) Halfdan Ragnarsson Viking leader and commander of the Great Heathen Army - parent of (child) Hvitserk Scandinavian warlord during the Viking era
- parent of (father) Ivar Ragnarsson King of Jorvik
- parent of (child) Rognvald Ragnarsson Vikings
- parent of (child) Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye legendary King of Denmark
- parent of (child) Ubba Ninth-century Viking leader
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married to Aslaug figure in Norse mythology, the third wife of Ragnar Lodbrok -
married to Lathgertha legendary Viking shieldmaiden and ruler - married to Svanloga
- married to Thora Borgarhjört Norse mythical character
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Ragnar Lodbrok connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
18 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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