Kráka was later revealed to actually be Aslaug, a secret daughter of the renowned hero Sigurd Fafnesbane.

This marriage resulted in the sons Ivar the Boneless, Björn Ironside, Hvitserk, Ragnvald and Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye. After Thora died, he discovered Kráka, a woman of outstanding beauty and wisdom living with a poor peasant couple in Norway, and married her. The unusual protective clothes that Ragnar wore, when attacking the serpent, earned him the nickname Lodbrok. He first killed a giant snake that guarded the abode of the Geatish jarl Herrauð's daughter Thora Borgarhjort, thereby winning her as his wife. According to the Sögubrot, 'he was the biggest and fairest of men that human eyes have seen, and he was like his mother in appearance and took after her kin'. In their accounts of his reign, the Sagas of Scandinavian Prehistory, known as fornaldarsǫgur, tell more about Ragnar's marriages than about feats of warfare. Eysteinn Beli, who according to the Hervarar Saga was Harald Wartooth's son, ruled Sweden sometime after Sigurd until he was slain by the sons of Ragnar and Aslaug. He sired a son with the princess Alfhild of the petty kingdom of Álfheimr, Ragnar Lodbrok, who succeeded him. Sigurd then ruled Sweden and Denmark (being sometimes identified with a Danish king Sigfred who ruled from about 770 until his death prior to 804). Sigurd and Harald fought the Battle of the Brávellir ( Bråvalla) on the plains of Östergötland, where Harald and many of his men died. Harald's nephew Sigurd Ring became the chief king of Sweden after Randver's death (Denmark according to Hervarar saga), presumably as the subking of Harald. After the death of king Ivar Vidfamne, Aud's eldest son by the Danish king Hrœrekr Ringslinger, Harald, conquered all of his grandfather's territory and became known as Harald Wartooth. The accounts further tell that Randver was a grandson of the legendary Scandinavian king Ivar Vidfamne by his daughter Aud (whom the Hervarar saga calls Alfhild). Nearly all of the sagas agree that the Danish king Randver was Sigurd's father, with the Hervarar saga citing his wife as Åsa, the daughter of King Harald of the Red Moustache from Norway. Īccording to the Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Tale of Ragnar's Sons, Heimskringla, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Sögubrot af nokkrum fornkonungum, and many other Icelandic sources, Ragnar was the son of the king of Sweden Sigurd Ring. It is more recently interpreted as a Germanic initiation ritual where the shaggy trousers played a role, which may have contributed to the legend of Ragnar Lodbrok. The man has been identified with Ragnar Lodbrok in an early Swedish version of the legend ( Schück). A warrior with shaggy breeches, killing a beast, on one of the Torslunda plates.

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