Øystein Jarl
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Svanhild Øysteinsdatter
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Spouses/Children:
Harald I Halvdansson Hårfagre (Lufa) of Norway

Svanhild Øysteinsdatter 1 2 3

  • Marriage: Harald I Halvdansson Hårfagre (Lufa) of Norway

   Other names for Svanhild were Svanhild Eysteinsdatter and Swanhild of Upplands.

  General Notes:

From Snorre Sturlasson: Harald Hårfagre's saga:

"21. HARALD'S MARRIAGE AND HIS CHILDREN.

... He [Harald] was also married to Svanhild, a daughter of Earl Eystein; and their sons were Olaf Geirstadaalf, Bjorn and Ragnar Rykkil. ..."


Svanhild married Harald I Halvdansson Hårfagre (Lufa) of Norway, son of Halvdan "den Svarte" Gudrødsson and Ragnhild Sigurdsdatter. The marriage ended in divorce. (Harald I Halvdansson Hårfagre (Lufa) of Norway was born circa 860 and died circa 940.)


  Marriage Notes:

Harald's children with Svanhild, daughter of Eystein Earl:
- Bjørn Farmann, king of Vestfold;
- Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, king of Vingulmark, later also Vestfold;
- Ragnar Rykkel. 4

Sources

1 Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179 - 1241), http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ (About 1225).

2 Tore Nygaard, Tore Nygaard's Genealogy (http://www.nygaard.home.se). Snorre Sturlasson: Håkon Hårfagres saga, avsnitt 21. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 474. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 53.

3 Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came to America before 1700. The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcomb of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants. (7th ed. With additions and corrections by Walter L. Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris

273 pp., Indexed. (1992), 1999. ISBN 0806313676.)

4 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

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