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Asa OF AGDIR ( - )
Name: | Asa OF AGDIR 1 |
Sex: | Female |
Father: | Harald GRANRAUDE ( - ) |
Mother: | Gunnhild RAGNVALDSDOTTIR ( - ) |
Individual Events and Attributes
Occupation | Queen Regent of Agder | |
Group/Caste Membership | House of Yngling |
Marriage
Spouse | Gudrød SIGFREDSSON VEIDEKONGE ( -bef827) | |
Children | Halfdan GUDRÖDARSON (810-860) |
Individual Note
Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder (Floruit 834) was a semi-legendary Norwegian Viking age Queen regnant of the petty kingdom Agder and mother of Halfdan the Black and grandmother of Harald Fairhair, according to the sagas of the Ynglinge clan.
Åsa was the daughter of King Harald Granraude of Agder and a reputed beauty. King Gudrød the Hunter of Borre in Vestfold proposed marriage to her after the death of his first wife, but her father refused the marriage. Gudrød Veidekonge then killed her father and her brother, abducted her and married her. One year later, she became the mother of Halfdan the Black. One year after this, Åsa took her revenge and had her servant kill her husband. She left the kingdom of Borre to her stepson Olaf Geirstad-Alf and took her own son with her to the kingdom of Agder, her birth country, were she took power. Åsa ruled Agder for twenty years, and after this she left the throne to her son. He also demanded half of his father's kingdom from his halfbrother.
There are theories that queen Åsa is the woman buried with the famous Oseberg ship from 834, but this is not confirmed.
SOURCES:
http://www.vikingorm.nl/se_page_vikingfeiten_oseberg.htm
http://nysgjerrigper.no/Artikler/2008/februar/historien_om_dronning_aasa
http://www.arild-hauge.com/konger.htm
http://runeberg.org/nfcm/0313.html
http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/schrodingers_katt/1.34051172
Sources
1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 219, 243A-15. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_%C3%85sa. |