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• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 783 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Ein Kind von RAGNAR LODBROK und ASLAUG SIGURÐSDÓTTIR

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Ubba, also known as Hubba, Ubbe, and Ubbi, was a mid-ninth-century Viking chieftain and one of the commanders of the Great Army, a coalition of Norse warriors that in AD 865 invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. According to a tradition recorded in Norse sagas, he was one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok.

Contemporary English sources tend to describe the army's men as Danes and heathens, but there is evidence to suggest that a proportion of the force originated in Frisia, and one source describes Ubba as dux of the Frisians. In 865 the Great Army, apparently led by a man named Ivar, overwintered in East Anglia, before invading and destroying the kingdom of Northumbria. In 869, having been bought off by the Mercians, the Vikings conquered the East Angles, and in the process killed their king, Edmund, who was later regarded as a saint and martyr. While near-contemporary sources do not associate Ubba with the latter campaign, some later, less reliable sources associate him with the king's martyrdom. Others associate Ubba and Edmund's martyrdom in traditions concerning the saga-character Ragnar Lothbrok.

Association with Ragnar Lothbrok
Although Ubba and Ivar were associated with each other by Abbo of Fleury and the eleventh-century churchman Ælfric of Eynsham (d. c. 1010), they do not record that Ubba and Ivar were related in any way. The first source to claim kinship between the two is the Latin Annals of St Neots, a twelfth-century source from Suffolk that claims they were sons of a man whose name was Latinized to "Lodebrochus". In a passage concerning battle-spoils won by the English at Arx Cynuit, one item specified by the Annals of St Neots is a magical banner named "Reafan", stated to have been woven by three daughters of Lodebrochus. Although certain versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle note the capture of a raven banner, they do not mention any magical attributes, or refer to Lodebrochus and his progeny. The source from which the author of the Annals of St Neots drew these details is unknown, and the accounts of Asser and Æthelweard make no reference to a banner.

The name "Lodebrochus" appears to be an early reference to Ragnar Lothbrok, a saga-character of dubious historicity, possibly an amalgam of several historical ninth-century figures. According to Scandinavian sources, Ragnar was a Scandinavian of royal stock, whose death at the hands of Ælla in Northumbria was the catalyst for the invasion of Anglo-Saxon England by his vengeful sons, resulting in the death of Ælla. The only Scandinavian source for Ragnar that refers to Ubba is the Latin Gesta Danorum, composed by Saxo Grammaticus. In this source, Ubba's parents are "Regnerus" and an unnamed daughter of "Hesbernus". According to the thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Ragnarssona þáttr, an important source for Ragnar, Ivar had two bastard sons, Yngvar and Husto, who tortured Edmund on Ivar's instructions. No other source mentions these sons, and they may be replications of Ivar and Ubba: it may be that the compiler of Ragnarssona þáttr failed to recognise Ivar's name in sources concerning Edmund. The name "Husto" appears to stem from a misreading, in which "Ubbe" was misread as "Usto". Regarding the bastardy accorded to Yngvar and Husto, this may only serve to reflect the cruelty that they are made to inflict on Edmund in the tale.

While medieval Scandinavians sources tend to locate tales of Ragnar in a Northumbrian context, medieval English sources tend to place them in an East Anglian one. The first author to associate Ragnar Lothbrok with East Anglia was Geoffrey of Wells, in his De Infantia Sancti Eadmundi, a Latin account that explains political events through personal motives. In this source, "Lodebrok" is extremely envious of Edmund's fame, and taunts his own sons - Ivar, Ubba, and Wern - for not having achieved as much as Edmund, provoking them to slay Edmund and destroy his kingdom. At one point this account ascribes diabolical powers to Ubba, which enable him to gain victory in battle. By the thirteenth century an alternate rendition appeared, for example in the Latin Flores Historiarum by the thirteenth-century churchman Roger of Wendover (d. 1236): here, "Lothbrocus" washes ashore in East Anglia, where he is honourably received by Edmund. Lothbrocus is then murdered by Bern, an envious huntsman. After Bern is expelled for this crime, he convinces Lothbrocus' sons Ivar and Ubba that it was Edmund who murdered their father, causing them to launch an invasion and destroy Edmund. The theme of revenge in Roger's account appears to have been borrowed from the stories concerning the killing of Ælla.

Modern depictions of Ubba as a son of Ragnar include his portrayal as leader of the invasion by the Great Heathen Army in Bernard Cornwell's novel The Last Kingdom and BBC America's series of the same name (played by Rune Temte) . In History's historical drama television series Vikings he features as Ragnar's son by Aslaug, under the name Ubbe (played by Jordan Patrick Smith).
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubba

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