Olof Björnsson (ca 970 - 975), was a semi-legendary Swedish king, who according to
Hervarar sagaHervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas. It is a valuable saga for several different reasons beside its literary qualities. It contains traditions of wars between Goths and Huns, from the 4th century, and the last part is used as...
and the
Styrbjarnar þáttr SvíakappaStyrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book ....
ruled together with his brother
Eric the VictoriousEric the Victorious Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll, , was the first Swedish king about whom anything definite is known....
. He was the father of
Styrbjörn StarkeStyrbjörn the Strong or Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion was according to late Norse sagas, the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious. The earliest attestation of Styrbjörn is from a contemporary Styrbjörn the Strong (Styrbjörn Sterki) or...
and Gyrid by his queen, Ingeborg Thrandsdotter, and he died of
poisonIn the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism...
during a meal. Instead of proclaiming his son Styrbjörn co-ruler, Eric proclaimed his own unborn child co-ruler on condition that it was a son. It was a son who became
Olof of SwedenOlof Skötkonung was the son of Eric the Victorious and Sigrid the Haughty. He was born around 980 and he succeeded his father in 995...
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Olof Björnsson (ca 970 - 975), was a semi-legendary Swedish king, who according to
Hervarar sagaHervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas. It is a valuable saga for several different reasons beside its literary qualities. It contains traditions of wars between Goths and Huns, from the 4th century, and the last part is used as...
and the
Styrbjarnar þáttr SvíakappaStyrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book ....
ruled together with his brother
Eric the VictoriousEric the Victorious Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll, , was the first Swedish king about whom anything definite is known....
. He was the father of
Styrbjörn StarkeStyrbjörn the Strong or Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion was according to late Norse sagas, the son of the Swedish king Olof, and the nephew of Olof's co-ruler and successor Eric the Victorious. The earliest attestation of Styrbjörn is from a contemporary Styrbjörn the Strong (Styrbjörn Sterki) or...
and Gyrid by his queen, Ingeborg Thrandsdotter, and he died of
poisonIn the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism...
during a meal. Instead of proclaiming his son Styrbjörn co-ruler, Eric proclaimed his own unborn child co-ruler on condition that it was a son. It was a son who became
Olof of SwedenOlof Skötkonung was the son of Eric the Victorious and Sigrid the Haughty. He was born around 980 and he succeeded his father in 995...
.
See also Early Swedish HistoryThe Swedish pre-history ended around 800 CE, when the Viking Age began. The Viking Age lasted to the mid-11th century, when the Christianization broke through. Circa 1050 to 1350 — when the Black Death struck — is considered to be Older Middle Ages...
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