Tora Torbergsdatter of Giske 1 2
- Marriage: Harald III Sigurdsson Hardråde of Norway 1047 or 1048
General Notes:
Harald Hardråde giftet seg inn i Arnmødlingætten, han tok Torberg Arnessons datter Tora til en slags medhustru. Tidligere var han gift med en datter til storfyrst Jaroslav og hadde med henne to døtre.
From Snorri Sturluson, Saga of Harald Hardrade:
"33. MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN OF HARALD HARDRADE.
The winter after King Magnus the Good died, King Harald took Thora, daughter of Thorberg Arnason, and they had two sons; the oldest called Magnus, and the other Olaf. King Harald and Queen Ellisif had two daughters; the one Maria, the other Ingegerd. The spring after the foray which has just been related King Harald ordered the people out and went with them to Denmark (A.D. 1049), and herried there, and did so summer after summer thereafter. ..."
Tora var gift med Harald i 1048, selv om hans dronning Elisiv enda levde og han ikke hadde skilt seg fra henne. Tora kalles ofte dronning og var ansett som den egentlige dronningen. Som sådan ledsaget hun Harald like til etter Risaslaget i 1062. Men da han i 1066 dro til England, var hun ikke med, mens Elisiv fulgte ham.
"85. KING HARALD'S DREAM.
King Harald also dreamt one night that he was in Nidaros, and met his brother, King Olaf, who sang to him these verses: --
"In many a fight
My name was bright;
Men weep, and tell
How Olaf fell.
Thy death is near;
Thy corpse, I fear,
The crow will feed,
The witch-wife's steed."
Many other dreams and forebodings were then told of, and most of them gloomy. Before King Harald left Throndhjem, he let his son Magnus be proclaimed king and set him as king over Norway while he was absent. Thora, the daughter of Thorberg, also remained behind; but he took with him Queen Ellisif and her two daughters, Maria and Ingegerd. Olaf, King Harald's son, also accompanied his father abroad."
Tora nevnes ikke sammen med Harald etter 1062, hun sies senere å ha blitt gift med Sven Ulfsen, men det heter også at det var Elisiv.
Noted events in her life were:
• She was a concubine [Frille].
Tora married Harald III Sigurdsson Hardråde of Norway, son of Sigurd "Syr" Halfdansson and Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, 1047 or 1048. (Harald III Sigurdsson Hardråde of Norway was born in 1015 in Ringerike, Buskerud, Norway and died on 25 Sep 1066 in Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England.)
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