Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye (Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Áslaugsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug. His historical prototype might have been the Danish King Sigfred who ruled briefly in the 870s. Norwegian kings' genealogies of the Middle Ages name him as an ancestor of Harald Fairhair and used his mother's supposed ancestry the Völsung to create an ancestry between Harald and his descendants and Odin.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye | |
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Engraving from 1670 | |
Legendary kings of Denmark | |
Reign | c. 873? |
Predecessor | Halfdan Ragnarsson |
Successor | Helge or Olaf the Brash |
Born | Sigurd Áslaugsson |
Died | 887 AD (killed in Frisia) |
Dynasty | Sigfredian |
Father | Ragnar Lothbrok |
Mother | Áslaug |
Religion | Norse Paganism |
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