Gudrod (Magnificent) HALVDANSEN

Birth:

780

Norway

Death:

820

Marriage:

Abt 818

Vestfold, Norway

Father:

Halvdan (the Mild) OYSTEINSEN

Mother:

Hlif

Notes:

                   SOURCES:
    Fusa Bygdebok, p. 657. Gudrod Halvdansen, den Gjaeve, King of Vestfold. Norse Family Saga, p. 56,64. FHL 929.2481 K831a Ancestral File Ordinance Index A History of the Vikings, by Gwyn Jones, p. 84

NOTES:
    Gudrod, son of Halfdan. When his wife, Alfhild, mother of his son, Geirstada Alf, died, Gudrod courted Ase, daughter of Harald the Redbeard at Agthir, near the head of the Oslo fjord. Refused, he with his followers, fought against and killed Harald Redbeard and carried away Ase. They had a son, Halfdan the Black. When Halfdan was a year old, Ase conspired to kill Gudrod. A servant of hers ran a spear through him. When Ase died, she was buried with many possessions in a beautifully carved Viking ship. Ship and possessions are displayed at Bygdoy (the Oseberg ship).

NOTES:
    Known as "The Magnificent" and as "The Hunting King"

Ase HARALDSEN

Birth:

Abt 790/95

Vestfold, Norway

Father:

Blocked

Mother:

Blocked

Children

Marriage

Halvdan (the Black) GUDRODSEN, KING

Birth:

823

Vestfold, Norway

Death:

863

Ragnhild SIGURDSDOTTER

Marr:

Notes:

                   SOURCES:
    Fusa Bygdebok, p. 657. King of Vestfold Norse Family Saga, p. 56,64.

NOTES:
    Halvdan (Halfdan) the Black was Ase's son by Gudrod.  His mother ruled for him during his youth. She "gave" half the kingdom to his twenty- year-old half-brother, Alf (Olaf). Halfdan was known to be truthful and fair-dealing. He was forty years old when he was drowned as his horses and sleigh broke through the ice. His sorrowing people wished to have him near them in death. Accordingly, there were raised four "haugs" (mounds). His head was laid in the "haug" at Stein of Hringarili. His body was divided into four parts and each part buried in a haug of its own in the four separate districts he had governed. Thus, people who wished to honor him by a visit or seek his advice could sit by his burial mound near home instead of traveling to Stein, where Halfdan's head was buried. Halfdan married Ragnhild, daughter of Harald Golden- beard of Sogn. He was soon King over Sogn after Harald died. He conquered other areas and became a powerful king. Both Ragnhild and the child he had by her died, and then he courted and married another maiden also named Ragnhild, who was the mother of Harald Harfagre. She was of noble lineage.
NOTES:
    Han drukna i Randsfjorden (Halfdan drowned in the Randsfjord)
NOTES:
    The sources disagree as to which of the two Ragnhilds was the mother of Harald Harfagre.

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Gudrod (Magnificent) Halvdansen - Ase Haraldsen

Gudrod (Magnificent) Halvdansen was born at Norway 780. His parents were Halvdan (the Mild) Oysteinsen and Hlif .

He married Ase Haraldsen Abt 818 at Vestfold, Norway . Ase Haraldsen was born at Vestfold, Norway Abt 790/95 .

They were the parents of 1 child:
Halvdan (the Black) Gudrodsen, King born 823.

Gudrod (Magnificent) Halvdansen died 820 .