Fjölnir
Sign in to savethumb|King Fjolner prepares to drown in the vessel of mead. He exclaims: I hope that the historian Odhner will describe this as an accident.(Caricature by Albert Engström)
Key facts
- Royalty.succession
- Legendary King of Sweden
- Royalty.predecessor
- Yngvi-Frey
- Royalty.successor
- Sveigder
- Royalty.issue
- Sveigder
- Royalty.issue link
- Issue
- Royalty.house
- House of Yngling
- Royalty.house type
- Dynasty
- Royalty.father
- Yngvi-Frey
- Royalty.death_place
- Lejre, Roskilde, Zealand, Denmark (fell in a vessel of mead and drowned)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Gamla Uppsala
- Place of death
- Zealand
- Child
- Sveigðir
- Father
- Freyr
- Mother
- Gerðr
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- semi-legendary king of Sweden
- Family
- Yngling
- Followed by
- Sveigðir
- Image
- Ynglingesagaen - Fjolne.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0050-00-00
- date of death
- 0050-00-00
- Commons category
- Fjölnir
- described by source
- Ynglinga saga
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Name
- Attestations
- ''Grottasöngr''
- ''Ynglinga saga''
- ''Ynglingatal''
- ''Gesta Danorum''
- ''Ballad of Veraldur''
- Notes
- Bibliography
- See also
- External links
thumb|King Fjolner prepares to drown in the vessel of mead. He exclaims: I hope that the historian Odhner will describe this as an accident.(Caricature by Albert Engström)
Fjölnir ( ) is a legendary king in Norse mythology said to have been the son of Freyr (Frey) and his consort Gerðr (Gertha). The name appears in a variety of forms, including Fiolnir, Fjölner, Fjolner, and Fjolne. He was claimed as the progenitor of the Swedish Yngling dynasty, reigning from Gamla Uppsala. According to the Grottasöngr, Fjölnir lived from the 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fjölnir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.