Vanlandi
Sign in to savethumb|right|200px|Vanlandi was burned by the river Skúta/Skytaa/Skutån ("shooting creek"). In the summer, the creek hardly merits the name, and today it is called Skuttungeån.
Key facts
- Royalty.succession
- Legendary King of Sweden
- Royalty.predecessor
- Sveigðir
- Royalty.successor
- Visbur
- Royalty.spouse
- Drífa
- Royalty.issue
- Visbur
- Royalty.house
- House of Yngling
- Royalty.house type
- Dynasty
- Royalty.father
- Sveigðir
- Royalty.mother
- Vana
- Royalty.burial_place
- By the Skúta river
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Gamla Uppsala
- Child
- Visbur
- Father
- Sveigðir
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- semi-legendary king of Sweden
- Family
- Yngling
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- date of death
- 0100-00-00
- date of birth
- 0298-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|right|200px|Vanlandi was burned by the river Skúta/Skytaa/Skutån ("shooting creek"). In the summer, the creek hardly merits the name, and today it is called Skuttungeån.
Vanlandi or Vanlande (Old Norse: "Man from the Land of the Vanir") was, according to Norse mythology, a Swedish king who ruled at Uppsala as part of the House of Yngling. He was the son of Sveigðir, whom he succeeded as king.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vanlandi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.