Individual Details
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden
( - )
According to Wikipedia:
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called Gyritha[1] or perhaps Gunnhild (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark.
Biography[edit]
In the sagas Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter.
According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to Denmark in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (Tyri Haraldsdatter), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth.
After the death of King Harald (986 or 987), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid.
The Danish historians Arild Huitfeldt (1603)[1] and Jakob Langebek (1772)[2] record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wives of Harald Bluetooth - the other being Thora (Tófa ?).
Sagas[edit]
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Eyrbyggja saga
Hervarar saga
Knýtlinga saga
Gesta DanorumReferences[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition) (p. 104 in the original edition from 1603)
^ Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29
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According to Wikipedia:
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called Gyritha[1] or perhaps Gunnhild (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark.
Biography[edit]
In the sagas Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter.
According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to Denmark in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (Tyri Haraldsdatter), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth.
After the death of King Harald (986 or 987), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid.
The Danish historians Arild Huitfeldt (1603)[1] and Jakob Langebek (1772)[2] record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wives of Harald Bluetooth - the other being Thora (Tófa ?).
Sagas[edit]
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Eyrbyggja saga
Hervarar saga
Knýtlinga saga
Gesta DanorumReferences[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition) (p. 104 in the original edition from 1603)
^ Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called Gyritha[1] or perhaps Gunnhild (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark.
Biography[edit]
In the sagas Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter.
According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to Denmark in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (Tyri Haraldsdatter), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth.
After the death of King Harald (986 or 987), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid.
The Danish historians Arild Huitfeldt (1603)[1] and Jakob Langebek (1772)[2] record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wives of Harald Bluetooth - the other being Thora (Tófa ?).
Sagas[edit]
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Eyrbyggja saga
Hervarar saga
Knýtlinga saga
Gesta DanorumReferences[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition) (p. 104 in the original edition from 1603)
^ Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29
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According to Wikipedia:
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called Gyritha[1] or perhaps Gunnhild (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark.
Biography[edit]
In the sagas Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter.
According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to Denmark in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (Tyri Haraldsdatter), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth.
After the death of King Harald (986 or 987), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid.
The Danish historians Arild Huitfeldt (1603)[1] and Jakob Langebek (1772)[2] record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wives of Harald Bluetooth - the other being Thora (Tófa ?).
Sagas[edit]
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Eyrbyggja saga
Hervarar saga
Knýtlinga saga
Gesta DanorumReferences[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition) (p. 104 in the original edition from 1603)
^ Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29
Families
| Spouse | Harold "Bluetooth" Gormsson, King of Denmark ( - 986) |
| Child | Tyra, Princess of Denmark ( - ) |
| Father | Olof Björnsson, King of Sweden ( - 975) |
| Mother | Ingeborg Thrandsdotter ( - ) |