See also

Family of Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON and Ásta HARALDSDÓTTIR

Husband: Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON

  • Name:

  • Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Hálfdan EYSTEINSSON (c. 768- )

  • Mother:

  • Hlíf DAGSDÓTTIR (c. 772- )

  • Birth:

  • c. 0790

  • (poss) Holtum, Vestfold, Norway1,2

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Kongur; Raumarike and Vestfold2

  •  

  • According to tradition his family came from Uppsala, establishing their rule over the district west of the Oslo fjord, also known as the Vik, with the title King of Vestfold.

     

  • Death:

  • 0821 (age 30-31)

  • Norway2

  •  

  • Cause: he was betrayed by his wife who bribed one of his squires to murder him

Wife: Ásta HARALDSDÓTTIR

Child 1: Hálfdan "Svarti" GUÐRÖÐARSON

  • Name:

  • Hálfdan "Svarti" GUÐRÖÐARSON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse (1):

  • Thora HARALDSDATTER (c. 830- )

  • Spouse (2):

  • Ragnhildur SIGURÐARDÓTTIR (c. 820- )

  • Spouse (3):

  • Raghild HARALDSDOTTIR ( - )

  • Birth:

  • c. 0830

  • Rykinsvik, Norway1,2,4

  • Occupation:

  • "ABOUT)858"

  • ruler of Upplendinga.2,4

  • Death:

  • c. 0870 (age 39-40)

  • Died crossing a frozen ford2,4

  •  

  • Cause: he died after falling through the ice while travelling across a frozen lake "Rond"

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Ringerike, Ringarik, Hedmark and Vestfold, Norway4

  •  

  • According to the Saga of Halfdan the Black, different districts claimed the honour of being Halfdan's burial place, and to satisfy all of them his body was divided into four parts and buried in Raumarik, Ringarik, Hedmark and Vestfold

Note on Husband: Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON

Gudröd is murdered by Åsa's page boy (on Åsa's orders)

Sources

1.

Latter Day Saints, Community Trees.

2.

Hálfdan Helgason, GenWeb.

3.

http://en.wikipedia.org, Wikipedia.

4.

The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.