Individual Details

Rollo was a powerful Viking leader of contested origin. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum, tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who had two sons, Gurim and Rollo; upon his death, Rollo was expelled and Gurim killed. William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum, but states that he was from the Danish town of Fakse. Wace, writing some 300 years after the event in his Roman de Rou, also mentions the two brothers (as Rou and Garin), as does the Orkneyinga Saga.

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Norwegian and Icelandic historians identified Rollo with Ganger Hrolf (Hrolf, the Walker), a son of Rognvald Eysteinsson, Earl of Møre, in Western Norway, based on medieval Norwegian and Icelandic sagas. The oldest source of this version is the Latin Historia Norvegiae, written in Norway at the end of the 12th century. This Hrolf fell foul of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair, and became a Jarl in Normandy. The nickname "the Walker", "Ganger" in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.

Birth	Abt 846	Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
Death	Abt 931	Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandy, France

Spouse	Papia "Senlis" DE VERMANDOIS (848 - )
Child	Adáele DE NORMANDIE (897 - 962)
Child	William DE NORMANDIE (900 - 942)

Father	Rognvald EYSTEINSSON (830 - 890)
Mother	Ragnhild HROLFSDATTER (848 - )
Sibling	Turstan ROGNVALDSSON ( - )
Sibling	Hrollaug RAGNVALDSSON (854 - )