"On Viking Expeditions of Highborn Maids: Two female warriors, of royal family according to the crowns on their heads, are participating in a sea battle." From Olaus Magnus' A Description of the Northern Peoples from 1555."On Alf, the Defender of Chastity: Alf, a suitor to the princess Alvilda kills two serpents who are guarding her chastity. To vex them he wears a bloody hide over his armour." From Olaus Magnus' A Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555.
According to the Gesta Danorum, Alfhild, daughter of the Geatish king Siward, was a shieldmaiden who had her own fleet of longships with crews of young female pirates and raided along the coasts of the Baltic Sea.
As a young princess, Alfhild's chamber was guarded by a lizard and a snake, which scared away unworthy suitors. A Danish prince named Alf, also of Geatish descent, came to Geatland and defeated the animal guards. But Alfhild, advised by her mother, fled from Alf dressed as a man, and she became a shield maiden.
Alf and his Scanian comrade, Borgar, together with their Danish sea-warriors, searched for and eventually found Alfhild and her fleet by the coast of southern Finland. After some deadly fighting aboard the ships, Alfhild's helmet was knocked off, and she was recognised. Alf and Borgar ordered their men to stop fighting, and Alf embraced Alfhild, happy to finally have found her. She then decided to lay off her warrior clothes and follow Alf to Denmark, where they got married.
Some years later, in a war fought against a revolting Danish clan, Alf and his brothers and their father king Sigar were killed. Only Alf's and Alfhild's daughter Gurid had survived of the royal family. After being queen for a while, Gurid married one of Borgar's sons, Halfdan, and they had a son named Harald, who became the new king of Denmark.
young princess, Alfhild's chamber was guarded by a lizard and a snake, which scared away unworthy suitors. A Danish prince named Alf, also of Geatish...
mythology and legend. The name is composed of Old Norse words, alf 'elf, fairy' and hildr 'battle'. As of 2010 it was common in Norway. Alfhild (Saxon princess)...
and in fpite of her disguise, instantly recognized her, and offered her his hand in wedlock. See Hist. Denmark, by Saxo Grammaticus. AlfandAlfhild International...
AlfandAlfhild later married, and they had a daughter, named Gurid. In a war fought against a revolting Danish Viking clan, Sigar, AlfandAlf's brothers...
made a free and decided choice". At first, Alfhild said no and ran away from home, but, after some adventures with her Viking fleet, she met Alf in a sea...
in part. Moreover, the practice of reviving works under a different title and of creating pasticci has confused musicologists. All of Vivaldi's operatic...
Sigurd Ring was married to Alfhild, the daughter of king Alf of Alfheim, and their son was Ragnar Lodbrok. Unfortunately, Alfhild died. When Sigurd Ring was...
Gyrithe Alfsdottir. They had (presumably) four children, three sons and a daughter. Alfhild Hysing Helsing Haki Gandalf's father was King Alfgeir. "Sagan om...
unlikely, given that Sigurd appears to have lived in the mid-9th Century and Ragnar himself may have lived until the 860s. Irish fragments provide a different...
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greatest within her profession, and her death before the age of 32 was seen as a great loss for her profession. Alfhild Agrell Birgitta Johansson Lindh...
actress of stage, screen and television. Wenche Foss was born to engineer Christian August Steenfeldt-Foss (1878–1960) andAlfhild Røren. Foss grew up with...
daughter and a bear, they say. And Earl Alf has the strength of ten men and the wits of twelve. And there are not many men, I ween, who are not glad and thankful...
they originate. A work group, consisting of the Swedish Academy, publishers and others, agreed to adopt a new name day list in 2001, very similar to the...
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the Titanic. She gave birth to a daughter, Alfhild Maria, in June 1912. Elias, Leila Salloum. The Dream and then the Nightmare Mr Joseph Caram. Encyclopedia...
journalist, crime writer and revue writer Fridtjof Knutsen and his wife Alfhild Gundersen (known as the crime writer Lalli Knutsen, and under the pseudonym...
was a fully rigged ship that was originally built as a passenger, cargo, and slave ship. On the return leg of her maiden voyage of the triangle trade...
Bollhuset in 1747 the part of Alfhild in Syrinx, called Sweden's first native Opera comique. She was a popular child actor and described as a valuable member...
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