See also

Family of Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON and Alfhilda ALFARINDÓTTIR

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 Vestfold1

  •  

  • 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)

  • Norway1

  •  

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

Wife: Alfhilda ALFARINDÓTTIR

Child 1: Olaf Gudrodsson GEIRSTAD-ALF

  • Name:

  • Olaf Gudrodsson GEIRSTAD-ALF

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Not KNOWN ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 0811

  • Geirstad, Sweden3

  • Residence:

  •  

  • Romerike, Norway

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • King; Raumarike, Bohuslän, & Vestfold.3

  • Death:

  • 0840 (age 28-29)

  •  

  •  

  • Cause: "of a disease in his foot" gout or Flateyjarbók suggests the king succumbed to a plague epidemic

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Geirstad, Sweden3

Note on Husband: Gudröd HÁLFDANARSON

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

Sources

1.

Hálfdan Helgason, GenWeb.

2.

Latter Day Saints, Community Trees.

3.

The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.