Wikipedia: Ragnar Lodbrok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Wikipedia: Ragnar Lodbrok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok: "According to traditional sources, Ragnar (possibly as a literary composite) was: (a) married three times, to the shieldmaiden Lagertha, the noblewoman Th��ra Borgarhj��rtr and Aslaug (also known as Kr��ka, Kraba), a Norse queen; (b) the father of historical Viking figures including Ivar the Boneless, Bj��rn Ironside, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Hvitserk, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, and Ubba; (c) captured by King ��lla of Northumbria and died after ��lla had him thrown into a pit of snakes; and (d) avenged by the Great Heathen Army that invaded and occupied Northumbria and adjoining Anglo-Saxon kingdoms...

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