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RELI Sources: Taut, Anne. "The Kings and Queens of Great Britain"rd was canonized..ubject:    Re: Ancestry of Ulf Jarl and Torgils SprakaleggFrom:        "Marcus Borg" <marcus.borg@semcon.se>Date:        21 May
1997 18:50:08 GMTMikael Larsson <mikaell@idt.unit.no> wrote in article<5lck39$1no@due.unit.no>...> Hi,> > I wonder if there is any consensus on the ancestry of Ulf(Wulfsige)> Jarl (Who was married
to Estrid/Margrete Sveinsdatter,daugther of> Svein Forkbeard), and his father Torgils Sprakalegg aliasThrugils> Spraklings.> > Old Scandinavian sources (sorry, I do not have my sources ingood order>
for the moment) claim that Torgils was the son of StyrbjornStarke,> a member of the royal family of Sweden.> > Modern encyclopedia, OTOH, claim that Torgils was anAnglosaxon.> > I would be grateful
for any replies.> > Thanks in advance,> Mikael Larsson> > I have heard about this claimed ancestry between StyrbjrnStarke andThorgils but, I've tried to check this by sketching ancestriallines
fromStyrbjrns grandfather (father of Erik the Victorious"Segersaell") viaOlof "Skotkonung" and forwards and I have come to the conclusionthat it ismost unlikley that Thorgils is the sun of (the
mythical?)Styrbjrn Starke.If you come to any other conclusion I'd appreciate if you couldforward theinfo to me since my field of genealogy is the nordic
countries(c.900-c.1500).Cheers//Marcusmabo@mbox301.swipnet.se
DATE 20 MAR 1999