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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Originally, the Swedish king had little power, and it was restricted to the functions of a warchief, judge and priest at the Temple at Uppsala (see Germanic king).
		The power of the king was however, greatly strengthened by the introduction of Christianity during the 11th century, and the following centuries saw a process of consolidation of power in the hands of the king.
		The king was traditionally elected at the Stone of Mora, and the people had the right to both elect king and to depose him.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Monarch_of_Sweden (575 words)

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		It wasn't until 6000 BC that all of Svealand and the modern coastal regions of North-eastern Sweden were free of ice, although the land was by then deeply pressed underwater.
		Some of these kings were in all likelihood historic kings, although the sources sometimes give contradictory information, such as the death of Ottar.
		In those days the kings were warlords rather than kings as we understand that title today, and what was to become Sweden, Norway and Denmark in a modern sense, were a number of petty kingdoms whose borders changed constantly as the kings killed each other, and had the local assemblies accept them as kings.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Prehistoric_Sweden (1334 words)

	Semi-legendary kings of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The semi-legendary kings of Sweden are the long line of Swedish kings who preceded Eric the Victorious, according to sources such as the Norse Sagas, Beowulf, Rimbert, Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, but who are of disputed historicity, due to the fact that many of them appear in more or less unreliable sources.
		The preceding monarchs are mythological in character and have been given a separate section in mythological kings of Sweden.
		The names within parentheses are kings that are not mentioned in the recital of Swedish kings in Hervarar saga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semi-legendary_kings_of_Sweden (412 words)

	Viking
		Norse mythology and Old Norse literature[?] tell us about their religion with heroic and mythological heroes; however, the transmission of this information was primarily oral and we are reliant upon the writings of (later) Christian scholars such as Snorri Sturlusson and Sæmundur Fróði "the Wise" Sigfússon[?] for much of this.
		In addition the kingdoms of Norway, Denmark and Sweden evolved and it is to be believed that their kings wanted more peaceful circumstances.
		This is a latter-day myth created by national romantic ideas in Sweden at the end of the 19th century, notably the Geatish society, and further imprinted by cartoons like Hagar The Horrible[?] or Asterix and numerous fictious movies.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Vikings.html (853 words)

	Sweden History
		It was first during the latter part of the 13th century AD that the crown gained a greater measure of influence and was able, with the introduction of royal castles and provincial administration, to assert the authority of the central government and to impose laws and ordinances valid for the whole kingdom.
		Sweden suffered further territorial losses during the Napoleonic wars and was forced to cede Finland to Russia in 1809.
		King Carl XVI Gustaf (Bernadotte) ascended to the throne on September 15, 1973.
	www.visiteuropeonline.com /genline/sweden_history.htm (9935 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As early as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of succession to the later historic kings of Sweden is not known, except for what is accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas (see Mythological kings of Sweden and Semi-legendary kings of Sweden).
		The power of the king was however, greatly strengthened by the introduction of Christianity during the 11th century, and the following centuries saw a process of consolidation of power in the hands of the king.
		The king was traditionally elected at the Stone of Mora, and the people had the right to both elect king and to depose him.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Monarch_of_Sweden (579 words)

	Yngling Family 832 - 1086
		The Ynglings are the earliest dynasty of rulers of Sweden.
		42 Descendants of Edmund Eriksson, King of Sweden at Birka
		"Forkbeard", King of Denmark, Norway, and ENG *
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dav4is/ODTs/YNGLING.shtml (646 words)

	Scandinavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While not strictly speaking kings, the law-speakers were the closest thing to a constitutional monarch in mediaeval Iceland because they were the embodiment of the law which held Iceland together and gave Icelanders a common identity.
		According to the sagas, Ivar Vidfame and the early Kings of Sweden and Denmark were descended in the distaff line from Heidrek II (Ivar's father Harald was the son of Heidrek II's daughter Hildur).
		His daughter Unn "The Deep-Minded" married Olaf the White, King of Dublin; their son Thorstein the Red was an early jarl of the Orkneys and Caithness.
	www.hostkingdom.net /scand.html (3572 words)

	Odin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		As the Swedes had the right not only to elect king but also to depose a king, the sagas relate that both King Domalde and King Olof Trätälja were sacrificed to Odin after years of famine.
		The Ynglinga saga also details the sacrifices made by the Swedish king Aun, who, it was revealed to him, would lengthen his life by sacrificing one of his sons every ten years; nine of his ten sons died this way.
		The former Swedish king Sverker had arrived with a large Danish army, and the Swedes discovered that the Danish army was more than twice the size of their own.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Odin (3134 words)

	Freyr - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		Freyr was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house.
		His timeframe for the Christianization of Sweden conflicts with other sources, such as runic inscriptions, and archaeological evidence does not confirm the presence of a large temple at Uppsala.
		Christmas ham is an old tradition in Sweden and may have originated as a Yuletide boar sacrifice to Freyr.
	paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Freyr (3851 words)

	My Icelandic Family
		What's being dealt with here are kings being ascribed Godly powers long after their existence, part of the exaggeration that occurs by passing things on orally...
		Halvdan Øysteinsson den Gavmilde (King of Vestfold, a.k.a.
		Aun Jorundsson den gamle (King in Uppsala, a.k.a.
	www.cs.umanitoba.ca /~andersj/sagas.html (1700 words)

	Mythological kings of Sweden biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In sources such as Heimskringla and Ynglinga saga there appear early Swedish kings who belong in the domain of mythology, but it is often suggested that they have a historical basis.
		It is, however, safe to assume that there were real kings of Sweden during this time, considering the fact that the concept of king was of Proto-Germanic origins (*kuningaz, a form borrowed by the Finns as kuningas) and that the Swedes were mentioned as early as 98 A.D. by Tacitus (the Suiones).
		Later these kings were gradually succeeded by Swedish semi-legendary kings, who are more likely to have been historical kings.
	www.biography.ms /Mythological_kings_of_Sweden.html (135 words)

	Legendary Danish kings
		The legendary kings of Denmarks are the predecessors of Gorm the Old, half history and half legend.
		The accounts ot the Danish kings are confusing and contradictory, and so this presentation tries to separate the various sources from each other.
		He is called 'Rex Getarum' (King of The Geats) in most accounts and is thought to be Hygelac, mentioned in Beowulf as the King of Geatland.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Legendary_Danish_kings (204 words)

	Where do I find Monarch Of Sweden information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HRH Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Westrogothia, daughter of the King, intrinsic 1977 HRH Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Wermelandia, son of the King, intrinsic 1979 HRH Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Helsingia Gestricia, daughter of the King, intrinsic 1982
		As prior as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the lineup of succession to the subsequential historic kings of Sweden isn't known, reject for what's accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas (see Mythological kings of Sweden Semi-legendary kings of Sweden).
		Following the break-through of Parliamentarism in 1917 the king's influences were remarkably reduced, he became a constitutional monarch with only bounded political authority.
	en.aqua-pets.info /Monarch_of_Sweden (812 words)

	Road to Hel - FUNERAL CUSTOMS: THE EVIDENCE OF LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the kings who follow Freyr, Snorri is content for the most part to adopt the version of their deaths given by Þjóðólfr, adding a story, usually of a fantastic nature, to explain the verse.
		This Sigriðr the Proud is an historical figure; she married Eric Sigrsæll, the king of Sweden mentioned here, whose dates are about 980—995; she intended at one time to marry Olaf Tryggvason, until they quarrelled over religious matters, and as a result of this she married instead his rival, Svein of Denmark (Tjuguskegg).
		But when we find it recorded of a tenth-century king of Norway that at his burial he was ‘directed to Valhöll' it is clear that here we have a different conception—nearer to the ideas about the future life which we have found to be connected with the worship of Othin in Sweden.
	www.normannii.org /guilds_lore/lore/roadtohel/chapter_02.htm (11905 words)

	Yngvi - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Íslendingabók Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey' appears as father of Njörd who in turn is the father of Yngvi-Freyr, the ancestor of the Ynglings.
		Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs (Scyldings).
		In Historia Norwegić, Ingui is the first king of Sweden, and the father of Njord, the father of Freyr: Rex itaque Ingui, quem primum Swethić monarchiam rexisse plurimi astruunt, genuit Neorth, qui vero genuit Froy; hos ambos tota illorum posteritas per longa sćcula ut deos venerati sunt.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Yngvi (487 words)

	VIKINGS
		The names of Scandinavian kings are known only for the later part of the Viking Age, and only after the end of the Viking Age did the separate kingdoms acquire a distinct identity as nations, which went hand in hand with their christianization.
		With the rise of kings and greate nobles and a quasi - feudal system in Scandinavia, they ceased entirely - in the 11th century the scandinavians are frequently chronicled as combating "vikings" from the baltic, which would eventually lead to danish and swedish participation in the baltic crusades
		The rune stones are important sources in the study of the entire Norse society and early medieval Scandinavia, not only of the 'Viking' segment of the population (Sawyer, P H: 1997).
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/vikings.htm (3417 words)

	Northvegr - The Religion of the Northmen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In them we find the family and the commonwealth minutely and clearly described in their various relations, while in general history they contain rich treasures for the historian and archæologist, which are even yet comparatively untouched, and out of the North are almost unknown.
		This King continued the work of conversion begun by his predecessor, and hence this Saga has for us a similar interest to the preceding one, although in a less degree.
		This portion of the work is of no historical value, and, in a mythological point of view, it becomes absurd in the earlier chapters, where the attempt is made to establish the Ynglínga history upon the history of the Gods, and to connect the two by means of foreign, Græco-Roman ideas and traditions.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/northmen/i002_03.php (3050 words)

	List of Swedish monarchs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a List of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time.
		However, the sagas tell that this line of Kings was broken (see Ingjald and Ivar Vidfamne), and trace them back to Sigurd Ring and Ragnar Lodbrok (whom Saxo, on the other hand, considered to belong to the House of Yngling).
		1130-1156 : Sverker I of Sweden (''Sverker den äldre'') - The House of Sverker
	list-of-swedish-monarchs.iqnaut.net (819 words)

	Tacitus "Germanien und seine Stämme" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some of these kings were in all likelihood historic kings within the present territory of Sweden, although the sources sometimes give contradictory information, such as the death of Ottar.
		One of the most powerful petty kings was the Swedish king, the king of the Sweon (Old Norse Svíar), who ruled Sweoland.
		But the whole strength and sway of their kings is derived from the authority of the Romans.
	wanclik.free.fr /tacitus.htm (10225 words)

	woa.tv :: Vikings
		The earliest mythological Viking characters were the Valkyries, heavily armed shield-maidens whose primary duty was to choose the bravest warriors slain in battle and lead them safely to their afterlife in Valhalla.
		And in describing the tenth-century Bravellir battle between Danes and Swedes, which involved 200,000 soldiers and twelve kings, he wrote of three fearless Viking women—Hetha, Wisna and Webiorg—who fought for the Danish.
		In the early 1950s, the remains of eight women were discovered in Sweden, buried in boat graves with swords at their sides.
	www.woa.tv /articles/hi_vikings.html (984 words)

	Yngling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some kings in the line are probably mythical, whereas some have probably existed in real life.
		The names of Swedish kings are shown in bold.
		However, in the Ættartolur, (the genealogies attached to Hversu Noregr byggdist), the Skilfings are of Norwegian origin and include a family identified as Skjöldungs.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Scylfing.htm (1646 words)

	Poland and the Baltic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the chroniclers Gallus Anonymus, Jan Dlugosz and Marcin Kromer, as a consequence of bad rule Popiel was banished from the capital of Gniezno and died eaten alive by mice (or rats) in a tower in the Kruszwica settlement.
		Polish legend speaks of a Jewish king, Abraham Prokownik, to whom the Polish tribes swore allegiance before he abdicated in favor of Piast.
		The tale has it that he was granted the throne when the nobility, having cast out Popiel, agreed to retain as King the first man to step through the city gates the next morning - he is said to have declined the honour and insisted that the wheelwright Piast would make the best ruler.
	www.hostkingdom.net /baltic.html (2715 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Odin
		It was common, particularly among the Cimbri, to sacrifice a prisoner to Odin prior to or after a battle.
		In England, Woden was not so much demonized as rationalized, and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he appears as a perfectly earthly king, only four generations removed from Hengest and Horsa.
		Snorri Sturluson's record of the Edda is striking evidence of the climate of religious tolerance in medieval Iceland, but even he feels compelled to give a rational account of the Aesir in his preface.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Odin (2926 words)

	Odin - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		Many kings and royal houses claim to trace their lineage back to Odin.
		Odin sacrificed one of his eyes to Mímir, in exchange for a drink from the waters of wisdom in Mímir's well.
		In this scenario, Snorri speculates that Odin and his peers were originally refugees from Troy, etymologizing Aesir as derived from Asia.
	paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Odin (2432 words)

	Tales and Folklore
		The Norse mythological system as we currently have it comes down to us mainly from the Icelandic Eddas and sagas which were written down a few centuries after the christianization of the north.
		In one myth, Gylfi, king of Sweden, tells Gefjon, who was disguised as a beggar, that she could have as much of Sweden as she could plough with four oxen in one day.
		She returned to Sweden in Midgard with her sons and ploughed all of the land now known as Zealand so it became part of Denmark, thereby tricking Gylfi.
	members.tripod.com /voices_of_wwpn/myths.htm (7551 words)

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