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Gyrid of Sweden
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Gyrid of Sweden
Queen consort of Denmark
Reign 980s
Spouse Harald I of Denmark
House House of Munsö (by birth)
House of Denmark (by marriage)
Father Olof Björnsson
Mother Ingeborg Thrandsdotter
Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden, also called Gyritha[1] or perhaps Gunnhild (10th-century), according to legends was a Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark.
Biography
In the sagas Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson of Sweden and Queen Ingeborg Thrandsdotter.
According to several sagas, her brother, Prince Styrbjörn Starke, accompanied her to Denmark in order to arrange her marriage to Harald Bluetooth. Styrbjörn Starke in turn married Tyra (Tyri Haraldsdatter), who was a daughter of Harald Bluetooth.
After the death of King Harald (986 or 987), nothing more is recorded about Gyrid.
The Danish historians Arild Huitfeldt (1603)[1] and Jakob Langebek (1772)[2] record Gyrid/Gyritha as one of the two wifes of Harald Bluetooth - the other being Thora (Tófa ?).
Sagas
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
Eyrbyggja saga
Hervarar saga
Knýtlinga saga
Gesta Danorum
References
Arrild Huitfeld: "Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke - Den første Tomus eller Part", 1652, p. 51 (in Folio-edition) (p. 104 in the original edition from 1603)
Jacobus Langebek: "Scriptores rerum Danicarum Mediiævi", I, 1772, p. 29
Gyrid of Sweden
Born: 10th century
Preceded by
Tove of the Obotrites Royal consort of Denmark
980s Succeeded by
Gunhild of Wenden ?
vte
Danish royal consorts
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