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Personal data Styr Ulfsson of York 

• He was born about 945.
• A child of Ulf of Northumbria
• This information was last updated on January 9, 2015.

Household of Styr Ulfsson of York

Child(ren):

1. Sigen Styrsdóttir  ± 973-1016 

Notes about Styr Ulfsson of York

could this actually be "Styrbjorn Olafsson" as found at:
http://www2.gdi.net/~gwydion/odell/denmark.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2064/dat3.htm#9

Birth : @959
Death : 986
Parents:

Father: Olaf Bjornsson, King of Sweden

Thyra Haraldsdottir (born before 1000 and died on Sept. 18, 1000). She
married
Styrbjorn Olafsson of Sweden and had Bjorn Stybjornsson and Thorkils
Sprakalegg (born about 936). Thyra then married Mieczislaw
(Burislaf) I of Poland, Duke of Poland, but had no children. She
married Olaf Tryggvason of Norway, King of Noray and they were the
parents of Harald Olafsson (born 999).

http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal05354
Olafsson, Styrbjorn of Sweden

Born: ABT 959
Died: 986, battle

Father: Bjornsson, Olaf of Sweden, King of Sweden

Married to Haraldsdottir, Thyra

Child 1: Styrbjornsson, Bjorn
Child 2: Sprakalegg, Thorkils, b. ABT 936

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A young Viking, King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway, became a convert to
the Christian religion some time before AD 1000. His passion for the
new religion was backed by a military force that threatened all who
refused baptism. Some Norsemen had already become Christians, mainly
through Irish influence, though on the whole the Vikings were content
with their own gods. Gradually Norway was Christianized, then the
Faeroe Islands and Iceland, and finally Greenland. The first Christian
missionaries in Greenland were brought there from Norway by Leif
Ericson.
A Viking chieftain was buried with everything he might need to get
to Valhalla. One third of his property might be used in this way.
(Another third went to his widow and the remainder to his children.)
The goods buried included money, tools, changes of clothing, weapons,
horses, chariots, boats, and even ships. Women's graves contained many
of the things they might need in afterlife, such as needles and thread,
looms, kitchen utensils, and cooking vessels.
Sometimes a dead warrior would be placed aboard his ship, which was
set afire and allowed to drift out to sea. Sometimes people were buried
in boat-shaped coffins, which were covered with earth mounds.
Fortunately, ships were not always burned, and a few have been
preserved.
Next to the sagas, graves have been the best source of information
about the Norsemen. In Scandinavian museums there are examples of
almost every art known to the Viking Age. Among these are jewelry,
weapons, furniture, and bronze and silver utensils. Most have survived
because they were made of such durable materials as stone, metal, and
hardwood. But woolen clothes in good condition have been found in parts
of Greenland where they had lain in the frozen soil for centuries.

History from the Sagas

The Norsemen, like the Greeks of Homer's time, were storytellers and
poets. At all assemblies, weddings, and funerals, those skilled at
storytelling and reciting verses would perform.
When Christianity came to the mainland of Scandinavia, folk poems
and stories were frowned upon by the clergy. But Iceland was protected
by distance from the influence of Europe. So, long after Christianity
became the official religion, the Icelandic people struggled to
preserve their historical and literary heritage. Their religious
leaders enjoyed the storytelling and found no offense in it.
During the 12th and 13th centuries, the clergy and scholars of
Iceland wrote many manuscripts. All were written as the saga tellers
related them. Some were true and some were pure fiction. Among the
serious historical records are sagas that tell of the kings and of
Viking conquests. They tell of their discovery and colonization of
Iceland and Greenland and their discovery of the American mainland.
Two significant manuscripts dealing with the religion and philosophy
of the Norsemen were written in Iceland the Elder Edda (in poetry) and
the Younger Edda (in prose). Much of what is known of early Norse
mythology came from the Eddas. (See also Saga; Scandinavian Literature.)
In Iceland much of the old Norse language has been retained. In
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark the languages are as different from the old
Norse as modern English is from early Anglo-Saxon.

Evelyn Stefansson Nef

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR VIKINGS

Atkinson, Ian. The Viking Ships (Lerner, 1980).
Benchley, Nathaniel. Beyond the Mists (Harper, 1975).
Donovan, F.R. The Vikings (Harper, 1964).
Irwin, Constance. Strange Footprints on the Land: Vikings in America
(Harper, 1980).
Logan, F.D. The Vikings in History (B & N Imports, 1983).
Magnusson, Magnus. Vikings! (Dutton, 1980).
Magnusson, Magnus. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
(Noontide, 1988).
Martell, Hazel. The Vikings (Watts, 1986).
Sawyer, P.H. Kings and Vikings (Methuen, 1982).

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