Sigrid with Olaf Tryggvason as imagined by Erik Werenskiold
Queen consort of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England
Spouses
Eric the Victorious Sweyn Forkbeard
Issue
Olof Skötkonung Emund Estrid Svendsdatter
Father
Skoglar Toste
Sigrid the Haughty (Old Norse:Sigríðr (hin) stórráða), also known as Sigrid Storråda (Swedish), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas. Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable historical evidence correlating to her story as they describe her. She is reported by Heimskringla to have been wife of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, sought as wife by Olaf Tryggvasson, then married to Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, but elsewhere author Snorri Sturluson says that Sweyn was married to a different woman.
It is unclear if the figure of Sigrid was a real person. Some recent scholars identify her with a documented Polish wife of Eric and perhaps Sweyn mentioned by medieval chroniclers and referred to as 'Świętosława' by some modern historians, but the potential husbands attributed to Sigrid lived over a wide date range and other modern scholars believe Sigrid may be an amalgamation of several historical women.[1]
^Birgitta Fritz (2004), "Sigrid Storråda", Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon, vol. 32
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